[ddj] Good resource for combining data in Excel or Spreadsheets?

[Catherine D'Ignazio]

Everyone - thanks so much for all these leads. These are great.
Catherine


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Assistant Professor of Civic Media and Data Visualization, Emerson College
Fellow, Emerson Engagement Lab
Research Affiliate, MIT Center for Civic Media
catherine_dignazio at emerson.edu | @kanarinka | 617-501-2441

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Wendell Cochran <wendell.cochran at gmail.com
> wrote:

> If it is a simple matter of adding a table or list of data that is
> identical in form and structure, I would simply copy the contents of one
> csv file (or Excel worksheet) and tag it on to the end of the first file
> (and then rename it something so I kept the first file). In other words,
> cut and paste. Think of this as a "vertical join."
>
> It is much more involved if you are trying to add new data in one file to
> data in another (a "horizontal join.") For example, say you want to add the
> spelled out name of states to a file that has state abbreviations. In that
> case, I would use whatever database program you like (or know).
>
> Wendell
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Piyush Aggarwal <
> me.piyushaggarwal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Catherine,
>>
>> Last year, I came across a similar problem of merging two or more CSV
>> files with common headers but couldn't find anything, so I wrote a simple
>> Python Script: https://github.com/MePiyush/LivingData. It can help you
>> in merging two CSV files into one.
>>
>> Piyush
>>
>> *about.me/mepiyush <http://about.me/mepiyush>*
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Catherine D'Ignazio <
>> dignazio at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all -
>>>
>>> I teach a data visualization course at Emerson College. We are just
>>> starting to talk about cleaning and combining data from multiple sources
>>> into a single file. We are using OpenRefine for cleaning.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a good, simple tutorial link or resource for combining
>>> data? Could be in Excel, Google Spreadsheets, or another program if it's
>>> free and easily accessible.
>>>
>>> Catherine
>>>
>>>
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