Tuesday, 12 August 2014

A Librarian's Guide to OpenRefine

Academic librarians working in technical roles may rarely see stacks of books, but they doubtless see messy digital data on a daily basis. OpenRefine is an extremely useful tool for dealing with this data without sophisticated scripting skills and with a very low learning curve. Once you learn a few tricks with it, you may never need to force a student worker to copy and paste items onto Excel spreadsheets. 

From the ACRL TechConnect Blog by Margaret Heller http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=3276

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