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I recently started working on a little eCommerce project. I found a way to indirectly estimate the sales of some of my competitors products. So I downloaded a
by swalsh 11y ago
I recently started working on a little eCommerce project. I found a way to indirectly estimate the sales of some of my competitors products. So I downloaded about 13gb of this data, processed it down into about 80 million rows and than ran a bunch of stats on it. Now 80 million rows is not "big data" scale, but it's not super small either. With my 16gb of memory (that I paid I think $400 for), my humble quad core i7 that i paid $300 for, and my 500 GB SSD. that I paid $100 for, My less than $1k desktop crunched through this dataset with no effort at all. I consider myself a "power" user, and my humble machine can do everything I can throw at it, and more. It'll be a long time before I upgrade again, and when I do, i'll probably buy the cheapest processor on the market. I'm probably not alone here.
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- neoterics 11y agoThis sounds intriguing, care to share any insights? Is this for Amazon?
- icelancer 11y agoYup. I do plenty of "medium data" work on my overclocked i5-2500k and 64 GB of RAM on Windows 7 / Ubuntu mixed machine. I've had the processor since the 2500k was the thing to have (years ago). No reason to upgrade yet. Got a new GPU after 6 years but that was about it.
- TheLogothete 11y agoYeah, I want to hear about estimating competitor sales too.
- swalsh 11y agoMaybe i'll do a write-up in the future. I assume everyone does it already, but on the off chance they don't.... i don't see any upside in writing about something that might help my competition.
- puranjay 11y agoMy 3+ year old Lenovo laptop running an i5 with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD (at 5400 RPM, no less) easily lets me multitask on Word, Photoshop and about 20+ Chrome tabs open The only time I've felt my computer to be "slow" was when I tried to use Photoshop and After Effects simultaneously.