What is Academic Torrents and Where is Data Sharing Going?

Academic Torrents is a platform for researchers to share data. It consists of two pieces: a site where users can search for datasets, and a BitTorrent backbone which makes sharing data scalable and fast. The goal is to facilitate the sharing of datasets amongst researchers. It was created by the Institute for Reproducible Research (a U.S. 501(c)3 non-profit). The site provides access to over 15TB of data including popular machine learning datasets such as all of UCI, Imagenet, and Wikipedia.