Look like twitter is taking down data sets e.g. http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-recent-Twitter-dataset-that-has-been-made-available-to-download-for-academic-research
e.g. There was a very nice one in http://snap.stanford.edu/data/twitter7.html, which has taken down. Another option is the following weather data set, 20GB. It is in Amazon free data sets. So do not have to pay for transfer etc. If we need more, we can replay the data. Daily Global Weather Measurements, 1929-2009 (NCDC, GSOD) A collection of daily weather measurements (temperature, wind speed, humidity, pressure, &c.) from 9000+ weather stations around the world. http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/Climate/2759 -- ============================ Srinath Perera, Ph.D. Senior Software Architect, WSO2 Inc. Visiting Faculty, University of Moratuwa Member, Apache Software Foundation Research Scientist, Lanka Software Foundation Blog: http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/ Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hemapani/ Phone: 0772360902 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@wso2.org http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev