8. Databases

Published

Thursday, October 24, 2024

This week …

Working with data that’s nominally larger than the amount of RAM you have.

Required Reading

Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund, and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data, 2nd ed. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2023), https://r4ds.hadley.nz.

Read the text online.. Take a look at Chapter 21 on databases. data. It uses a different database back-end from the one we’ll use in class, but the ideas are the same.

Examples

This week’s examples and demos.

Assignment

No assignment this week.

Slides

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## This week ...

Working with data that's nominally larger than the amount of RAM you have.

## Required Reading

- @wickham23:_r_data_scien. 

[Read the text online.](https://r4ds.hadley.nz/). Take a look at [Chapter 21](https://r4ds.hadley.nz/databases) on databases. data. It uses a different database back-end from the one we'll use in class, but the ideas are the same.

## Examples

[This week's examples and demos](/example/08-example.qmd).

## Assignment

No assignment this week.

## Slides

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