EPISODE · Apr 17, 2026 · 7 MIN
Vast Data - Tim Smith
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/exploration-on-the-big-data-frontier-tim-smithThere 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/exploration-on-the-big-data-frontier-tim-smithThere 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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