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The concept of Big Data refers to very large datasets, sets of sizes where you need data warehouses to store the data, where you typically need sophisticated algorithms to handle the data, and distributed computations to get anywhere with it. At the very least, we talk many gigabytes of data but also are often dealing with terabytes or exabytes.
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This is not entirely true; it is possible to make mutable objects, but it requires some work. Unless you go out of your way to create mutable objects, this statement is true.
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Mailund, T. (2017). Working with Large Datasets. In: Beginning Data Science in R. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2671-1_5
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