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Cleaning untidy data with OpenRefine

Cleaning untidy data with OpenRefine Online

Tired of spending hours and hours cleaning messy data in Excel spreadsheets? Come learn OpenRefine, an easy-to-use, open-source tool for data cleaning. OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) helps you prepare your data for analysis. Quickly and easily transform data, split and merge columns, remove whitespace, and perform many more common data cleaning tasks. With OpenRefine, you can also easily create JSON scripts for repeating series of tasks across multiple datasets.  No previous experience is required.

Date:
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Campus:
Virtual Workshop
Categories:
  Open Science     Working With Data  
Online:
This is a virtual event. A URL to participate will be sent via a reminder email 24 hours before the event.
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Organizer(s)

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Sarah Young