Guest post by Todd J. Vision, Dryad Digital Repository. This blog was first posted on Dryad News & Views on Tuesday, June 9th 2015.

Dryad’s latest featured data package is from Alexandra Swanson and colleagues at the Snapshot Serengeti project, and accompanies their peer-reviewed article in Scientific Data. It provides a unique resource for studying the one of the world’s most extraordinary mammal assemblages and also for studies of computer vision and machine learning. In addition, data from Snapshot Serengeti is already being used in biology and computer science classrooms to enable students to work on solving real problems with authentic research data. Continue reading →