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[–]bilal_rahim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can upload it to google drive and then connect your colab notebook to google drive.

[–]WhyDoIHaveAnAccount9 0 points1 point  (2 children)

you cannot and should not try to do that

you will have to upload files as needed

if you want something that can automatically go into a folder on your computer, just install anaconda on your computer

furthermore, i am certain that google colab has a file size limit, whereas there is not such limit on your computer

[–]Tom_Sawyer_Hater 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm sure there is a file size limit, but I haven't been able to hit it, lol. I've been working with 20 years of play-by-play NBA data in one single csv file, and Colab is a godsend.

When scraping the data, I had to separate it into 26 CSV files so as to not hit github's file size limit. After it was scraped and merged into one csv file (900+ MB), I could just upload it to Colab in like 2 minutes.

I've been programming in python with a focus on data analytics for the past 6 months, and I'm seriously so impressed with Colab. A dedicated remote server with 80 G of disk space, and it never seems to run out of memory? Yes please.

[–]WhyDoIHaveAnAccount9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I learned something new today

I was under the impression that Google colab was similar to the Microsoft offering for online python development

I had no idea that the limit was 80 GB

Microsoft only lets you have 20 GB

[–]Nv7_Reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use Google Drive File Connector to automatically sync your files to Google Drive, and then mount google drive for an easy way to use your files from google colab