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by deepsun 455 days ago
Well, big data for me was always clear -- when data sizes are too large to use regular tools (ls, du, wc, vi, pandas).

I.e. when pretty much every tool or script I used before doesn't work anymore, and need a special tool (gsutil, bq, dusk, slurm), it's a mind shift.