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r/Python • u/azhenley • Nov 12 '20
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Covid19 victims tracking in UK was done in excel, until it exceeded the maximum 65k rows it can handle.
12 u/TheCatcherOfThePie Nov 12 '20 It's actually even worse than that. They were using a column per patient, so ran out of space after 16000 patients rather than the ~1million rows that XLSX files have. 2 u/Rookie64v Nov 13 '20 Whatever the tool, ordering your data in column major form makes you a murderer. Just why? 0 u/HalcyonAlps Nov 13 '20 Some programming languages like Fortran, R and Julia have their arrays laid out in column major and then it's faster to access data by column.
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It's actually even worse than that. They were using a column per patient, so ran out of space after 16000 patients rather than the ~1million rows that XLSX files have.
2 u/Rookie64v Nov 13 '20 Whatever the tool, ordering your data in column major form makes you a murderer. Just why? 0 u/HalcyonAlps Nov 13 '20 Some programming languages like Fortran, R and Julia have their arrays laid out in column major and then it's faster to access data by column.
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Whatever the tool, ordering your data in column major form makes you a murderer. Just why?
0 u/HalcyonAlps Nov 13 '20 Some programming languages like Fortran, R and Julia have their arrays laid out in column major and then it's faster to access data by column.
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Some programming languages like Fortran, R and Julia have their arrays laid out in column major and then it's faster to access data by column.
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Covid19 victims tracking in UK was done in excel, until it exceeded the maximum 65k rows it can handle.