AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is big data units?
Big data units: The prefixes used to describe larger quantities of data: kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta and exa, each a thousand times the last in decimal usage. They help judge whether a dataset fits in memory or needs distributed storage.
Big data units: an example
A 2 TB dataset is 2,000 GB, which is far too large to fit into a typical laptop's RAM.
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Where you learn it
Big data units is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.