# A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’ | TechCrunch

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## What Jamie wrote

This seems like it could be incredibly valuable, but it’s a little hard what "it" would be. Github was defined by `git`, which it didn’t actually make. But there is definitely a need. There are many git repositories on Github that just hold data.

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