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For most companies, "big data" is when they can't fit the data in a single Excel sheet anymore.



Devops Borat: "big data is any data which is crash excel"


This is coincidentally also how I describe my job: I help when it doesn't fit in excel anymore.

Much easier for people to understand than shorter than civil engineer turned software developer in an engineering firm where I do data management, automation and application development for (mostly internal) clients to streamline business and engineering processes.




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