Many interesting data sets available on the Internet are of a medium size---too big to fit into a personal computer's memory, but not so large that they won't fit comfortably on its hard disk. In the coming years, data sets of this magnitude will inform vital research in a wide array of application domains. However, due to a variety of constraints they are cumbersome to ingest, wrangle, analyze, and share in a reproducible fashion. These obstructions hamper thorough peer-review and thus disrupt the forward progress of science. We propose a predictable and pipeable framework for R (the state-of-the-art statistical computing environment) that leverages SQL (the venerable database architecture and query language) to make reproducible research on medium data a painless reality.
@article{arxiv.1708.07073,
title = {A Grammar for Reproducible and Painless Extract-Transform-Load Operations on Medium Data},
author = {Benjamin S. Baumer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07073},
year = {2018}
}