Economist Steven Levitt (author of the best-seller Freakonomics and a hotshot professor at the University of Chicago) has made a post on his
blog looking for extensive online poker hand histories to do some analysis.
He writes: " So, to all Freakonomes, we send out a request: if you or someone you know has been keeping a database of poker hands played online -- we need a really big one -- we would love to analyze it. You will be contributing to science (if what we do is science), and more importantly, we are confident we can help you be a better poker player. Heck, we'll even throw in a freakonomics t-shirt as well if we you can provide a data set we can use.
Also, if you run an online poker website or know someone who does, we would love to analyze the data from the website and in return we will deliver a proprietary algortihm for catching online poker cheats. "
I'm sure it would be very worthwhile if one of the experienced 2+2ers can help him out with this.