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Everything in this quote is objectively false. I had a task in my job to make boxplots with huge datasets (> 120 GB of data) but all I needed were these five data points. It made no sense whatsoever to save every data point. I was doing this in Perl, since I don't like using R unless I have to. That was the purpose of the page. On the contrary, this task was very useful for me, but maybe not for you. I wouldn't have been able to make these plots without this task, specifically the Perl translation. "pretty useless"? on the contrary, this was essential, and I couldn't have performed the task without it. In the spirit of generosity, I decided to make my work in translating R's fivenum function available to others in case they had the same problem I did.--[[User:Hailholyghost|Hailholyghost]] ([[User talk:Hailholyghost|talk]]) 14:27, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
:You missed the point, again. That YOU had to do this in your job does not mean that computing 5 numbers is related to big data. Maybe you needed also a mean, that does not imply computing a mean is related to big data: you can take a mean of 10 values. Always your case, your job, your own particular situation, does not make a general task. The general task would say: compute these numbers, period. You can do it with small data, with big data, with gigantic data, noone cares. Besides, the task you asked is not exactly the same: you asked for data that would produce the same numbers
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