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 ### Remarks on first setup
 1. The source code does not include any data to process. Instead, it will check if data are available on your local machine
-and will download data from the [here](https://join.fz-juelich.de). The data set is roughly 1.6 GB. We did not implement
+and will download data from the [here](https://join.fz-juelich.de). We did not implement
 a default `data_path` as we want to allow you to choose where exactly the data should be stored. 
 Consequently, you have to pass a custom data path to `ExperimentSetup` in `run.py` (see example below).
 If all required data are already locally available, the program will not download any new data.