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OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it

16 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 4 stories, 12 comments · first 2012-12-09 · latest 2024-02-16

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  1. …down 'Google Refine' 10 years ago, it got turned into 'Open Refine', last release five days ago. https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine It's a hugely useful tool if you're working with messy Excel-scale data, i.e., most biologists or…
    comment by a_bonobo · 2024-02-16 · in The future of Mozilla Hubs
  2. It seems to be pure JS with jQuery: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/blob/master/main/we... It is SSR with Velocity templates.
    comment by 5ersi · 2023-10-23 · in OpenRefine
  3. I would suggest https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine to clean your data.
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    OpenRefine is an OSS power tool for working with messy data and improving it
    story by timhigins · 2020-09-23 · 0 comments
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    OpenRefine – free, open source tool for working with messy data and improving it
    story by simonpure · 2020-09-07 · 0 comments
  6. …and ways we plan to address these are mentioned in our general OpenRefine on Spark issue here: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/1433
  7. …how to work along with Jupyter. Our community has some documentation on our Wiki about that here: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Jupyter
  8. Our current architecture is here: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Architecture YES! We want users to process much larger data sets also! We have started experiments with using Apache Spark on the backend where the hope is…
  9. …feature that helps disambiguate Named Entities etc based on wikidata is really powerful - https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation You can hook in your own reconciliation end point which we do at work to expand internal…
  10. …(although workflows are possible where both notebook-scripted and live interactions take place. https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Jupyter Are there data wrangling workflows that are supported by OpenRefine but not Pandas, Dask,…
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    OpenRefine – assess the quality of datasets
    story by chirau · 2017-01-25 · 0 comments
  12. It was openSourced as OpenRefine. https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine
    comment by dudus · 2016-11-08 · in Google Data Studio
  13. See also: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Clustering-In-... (from a few years back) As if to prove its utility, https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/Levenshtein.html lists most of the same algorithms under "See also".
  14. The file in question, for anyone curious: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/blob/master/main/sr...
  15. Have you heard of OpenRefine, formerly Google Refine? https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine
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    OpenRefine is a free tool for working with messy data and improving it
    story by adulau · 2012-12-09 · 0 comments