Announcing the Public Terabyte Dataset project

We’re very excited to announce the Public Terabyte Dataset project. This is a high quality crawl of top web sites, using AWS’s Elastic MapReduce, Concurrent’s Cascading workflow API, and Bixo Lab’s elastic web mining platform. Hosting for the resulting dataset will be provided by Amazon in S3, and freely available to all EC2 users. In addition, the code used to create and process the dataset will be available for download more…