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Re:Dat – A git-like tool for large datasets by platz on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:12PM (#7650270)
It might not be optimal; however I wonder if most of the primary sources this is intended to target (i.e. govt) prefers to use textual data?
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Re:Dat – A git-like tool for large datasets by mistursinistur on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:23PM (#7650300)
Nope. Any really large government data is not text -- it's mostly in older open binary formats (e.g. weather data in GRIB from NOAA) or expensive proprietary binary formats (e.g. healthcare data in SAS from CMS).
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Re:Dat – A git-like tool for large datasets by coherentpony on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:16PM (#7650283)
>I wonder if most of the primary sources this is intended to target (i.e. govt) ...

The second sentence on their website appears to state otherwise: "As a team we have a bias towards supporting scientific + research data use cases."

Edit: Well, on further reading they do go on to say, "What we're building isn't quite ready for prime time yet, but if you want to play around...", so perhaps I should not jump the gun :)

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