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		soofy on April 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Micro... This is a funny sarcasm on the topic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213219 They are saying Excel - established data tool - is, in fact, dead for big data. And what else matters?

mbq on April 21, 2013 [–]

The problem is that still most data is not big; even worse, big data is often either small data presented in a very sparse way (logs for instance) or is being subsetted or summarised to fit in Excel :(

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