[wdmmg-discuss] Google Refine - data cleaning tool - any use?

Wed Nov 17 13:32:16 UTC 2010

Refine's great - I wrote about it here:

http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/11/data-cleaning-tool-relaunches-freebase-gridworks-becomes-google-refine/

Played a bit during the Lichfield hackday and it's very intuitive. Also can
pull in a JSON from Google Maps and generate a latlong for any placenames in
data.

Paul

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> From: David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com>
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>  Hi,
>
>  The NYT has created an interactive visualization for readers to try
> to fix the US budget deficit:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html
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>  I was going to compare it with the UK version at
> http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/interactive/ , but the link is
> currently not working, I don't know if you're already aware of this.
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> /david
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> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:47:56 +0000
> From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [wdmmg-discuss] Fixing the US Budget in the NYT (and UK
>        version not working)
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> On 16 November 2010 21:31, David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ?Hi,
> >
> > ?The NYT has created an interactive visualization for readers to try
> > to fix the US budget deficit:
> >
> > ?
> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html
> >
> > ?I was going to compare it with the UK version at
> > http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/interactive/ , but the link is
> > currently not working, I don't know if you're already aware of this.
>
> Fixed -- thanks for pointing this out! (The recent upgrade of site had
> unfortunately relocated the iframe this used).
>
> Nice to know we got there before the NYT :)
>
> Rufus
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> From: K Corrick <kathryn.corrick at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [wdmmg-discuss] Google Refine - data cleaning tool - any use?
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> Hi everyone,
> I just come across the following tool from Google for cleaning up data.
> Looks pretty useful, but I'm sure those much wiser than I on these matters
> will be better judges:
> https://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
>
> Kathryn
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> From: David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com>
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> > Nice to know we got there before the NYT :)
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>  yep, just what I said: ;)
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> http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/11/your_chance_to_cut_the_us_budget_deficit.html
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