Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size

Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous."

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news161534202.html">Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size</a></p> <p>Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous."</p>