OpenRefine, a Power Tool for Messy Data: Resources

Lesson on data cleaning with an ecology data example.

Programming Historian lesson featuring web APIs and manipulating text with GREL arrays.

Learn why data cleaning, preparation and enrichment take up an enormous amount of time, and is nevertheless a crucial stage in the data science methodology.

Highlights Biology data example.

"This is a tutorial on using OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine), and has been developed to teach students in a statistics class how this tool can be used to clean up data." Uses university endowment data.

Uses campaign donation data.

Focuses on history data

Focuses on data journalism.

Uses African hospital data.

Lesson introduces librarians to working with data in OpenRefine. At the conclusion of the lesson you will: understand what the OpenRefine software does; use the OpenRefine software to work with data files.

Workshop outline and video from March 2021

Workshop outline and video from 2017.