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Would it be possible to put the gigabytes back in the title? In general, ETL of gigabytes of data can involve complicated operations, e.g., use of statistical models. And, the utility of data is not determined by the size of data. One has to be a pretty petty person to make fun of this article for data sizes.

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You're right on the facts, but that's not the way a forum like this works. Like it or not (and probably no one likes it), the way it works is that a minor irrelevant provocation in the title completely determines the discussion. The solution is to take out the minor provocation, even if in principle we shouldn't need to.

That was almost every comment before I posted. All of them seem to be grayed out now.

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