[School-of-data] Scraping using Google Refine (Workshop notes)

Tue Jun 18 22:31:41 UTC 2013

Jimena,

Yes, it's very text heavy in the end. I did this with a workshop and this
was the notes of what we did. I could try to do a screencast of it.

I'll definitely add more screenshots - especially every time mentioning
something new.

Michael

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:32:59PM -0230, Jimena Martinez wrote:
> Hi Michael
> I think it´s clear enought, but I have a question about the approach in the
> form of communicate it. Have you thought of showing this through a
> combination of explanations and videos? I mean, I know more or less the
> kind of courses School of Data offers, and I think they are reallly great,
> but ni general I miss an easier way to read or follow the contents. If it
> could be easier (faster) to follow, it would encourage more people to
> follow them, I think. It´s not the content itself, which I think it´s
> clear, is the way to communicate contents and to interact with users.
> A good point for that is translate the specific instructions about software
> into some graphic explanations (not much text, but graphics when possible)
> and videos where everything could be explained in less time and easily
> understood by people. It´s not the same facing some pages of instructions
> (more than 10 instructions could be challenging for some people) with a lot
> of steps than follow some text with graphs and some minutes video  where
> you can interact, stop, repeat, etc. As an extra document I think it´s
> great having the instructions as in the document you sent, but I think it´s
> more "pedagogical" the video+graphs approach. It is the way elearning seems
> to be going now, and there are a lot of online education platforms doing
> that. In the company I worked for we developed this approach and we had
> very positive feedback from the students, and much more students, actually.
> It´s only an idea, maybe SoD does not like this approach or it´s not a
> priority, or maybe you are thinking on doing that later, but just in case...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jimena
> 
> 
> 2013/6/18 Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Got 30 minutes of time? Help us out!
> >
> > I used this walkthrough for a workshop yesterday:
> >
> > http://unurl.org/sccl
> >
> > It starts with scraping using google docs and later shows how to scrape
> > multi-page documents with Refine.
> >
> > Since this is starting to circulate (thanks to @openrefine) - I'd like to
> > turn it into a recipe/course soon.
> >
> > I need your help: if you have 30 minutes - read the doc and follow the
> > instructions (especally from the section where refine is used) and comment
> > on unclarities/ambiguities etc.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >   Michael
> >
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