How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load Data
A lot of comments in here are poking fun at how little data it is relative to a commercial data mining operation. The data they process and what they do with it is worth more to society than any number of petabytes crunched to target ads. Processing petty petabytes is not praiseworthy.<p>If you focus on the headline, you'll miss the point. The point is they used open source technology to process public data for reporting once the government stopped updating its own tools.