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Using OpenRefine
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Using OpenRefine

by Ruben Verborgh, Max De Wilde
September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
114 pages
2h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Recipe 7 – going for more memory

In this last recipe, you will learn how to allocate more memory to the application in order to deal with larger datasets.

For large datasets, you might find that OpenRefine is performing slowly or shows you OutOfMemory errors. This is a sign that you should allocate more memory to the OpenRefine process. Unfortunately, this is a bit more complicated than the other things we have done so far, as it involves a bit of low-level fiddling. But don't worry: we'll guide you through it. The steps are different for each platform. A word of caution: the maximum amount of memory you can assign depends on the amount of RAM in your machine and whether you are using the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Java. When in doubt, try to ...

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