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9.3 PYTHON LIBRARIES FOR DEALING
WITH LARGEDATASETS
The data sets used in machine learning are increasingly becoming large in size. Hence, both the
R and Python programming languages, which have become de facto languages for the machine
learning community are gearing up to handle data sets of large size. In the previous chapter, we
have already seen how R programming has imbibed the capability of handling large data sets
in the form of libraries, like ff / ffbase, parallel, data.table, etc. In this section, our objective is to
understand the important libraries in Python for working with large data sets. ...