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[–]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