Working With Messy Data in OpenRefine Workshop

This workshop will introduce OpenRefine, a powerful open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating \"messy\" data. Through hands-on activities, using a variety of datasets, participants will learn how to: Explore and identify patterns in data; Normalize data using facets and clusters; Manipulate and generate new textual and numeric data; Transform and reshape datasets; Use the General Regular Expression Language (GREL) to undertake manipulations, such as concatenating strings.