BigDataFr recommends: Giant Yahoo Data Dump Aims to Help Computers Know What You Want

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Hundreds of millions of people visit Yahoo’s news sites each month. Today the company released a huge trove of information about the news-reading habits of some 20 million of them in an attempt to help researchers invent software that’s better at predicting what we want.

The giant 13-terabyte data set (13,000 gigabytes) is drawn from activity on Yahoo sites between February and May of last year and is being made available only to academic researchers. Yahoo says the data set is the largest to ever be made freely available, besting a one-terabyte data set released by the online ad company Criteo last year. […]

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By Tom Simonite
Source: www.technologyreview.com