CERN Just Dropped 300 Terabytes of Raw Collider Data to the Internet by Andrew Liptak.
From the post:
Yesterday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) dropped a staggering amount of raw data from the Large Hadron Collider on the internet for anyone to use: 300 terabytes worth.
The data includes a 100 TB “of data from proton collisions at 7 TeV, making up half the data collected at the LHC by the CMS detector in 2011.” The release follows another infodump from 2014, and you can take a look at all of this information through the CERN Open Data Portal. Some of the information released is simply the raw data that CERN’s own scientists have been using, while another segment is already processed, with the anticipated audience being high school science courses.
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It’s not the same as having your own cyclotron in the backyard with a bubble chamber but its the next best thing!
If you have been looking for “big data” to stretch your limits, this fits the bill nicely.