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How ProPublica Illinois uses GNU Make to load 1.4GB of data every day

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Opensource.com
Aug 7, 2018

ProPublica Illinois open-sourced their code for loading Illinois campaign finance data. The process used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes.

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