# Big Data

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Tim Smith
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_smith_big_data)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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. \[Directed by Biljana Labovic, narrated by Tim Smith, music by Corey Allen Jackson\].

## Lectures

1. [Big Data](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/tim_smith_big_data/c6eb6ae6f872), 6 min (TED's player)