Science gleans 60TB of behavior data from Everquest 2 logs - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars

WEEK 8 -- 03/10/2010

In February 2009 Dmitri Williams

4 years, 400k players ~=60TB -- about 475k/s, slightly > 1k /user/sec.

Thanks to a partnership with Sony, a team of academic researchers have obtained the largest set of data on social interactions they've ever gotten their hands on: the complete server logs of Everquest 2, which track every action performed in the game.

m psychologists to epidemiologists have wondered for some time whether online, multiplayer games might provide some ways to test concepts that are otherwise difficult to track in the real world. A Saturday morning session at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of

Food for data miners