Vast Data - Tim Smith
Apr 17, 2026•9 min
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/exploration-on-the-big-data-frontier-tim-smith
There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades - stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.
Lesson by Tim Smith, animation by TED-Ed.
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