The use envisioned for this newly available information was twofold: the statistical study of the mechanical properties of the materials, and their use as a target property for highthroughput screening in the process of materials discovery and design. To illustrate the first point, de Jong et al. have used the data obtained to obtain a map of the distribution of bulk moduli, putting boundaries on what values are possible and likely across the wide chemical space of inorganic materials. They have also illustrated the existence of correlations between bulk modulus, shear modulus, Poisson's ratio and atomic volume of the crystal, as illustrated on Figure ): such correlations serve to reinforce some classical laws of elasticity in continuous media, as well as to highlight how and how much crystalline materials (anisotropic by nature) can deviate from these ideal laws.