In this tutorial you will use Google Refine to clean our dataset and create some files that may be useful for the upcoming assignments. We will perform some cleaning together in class.
Getting Started
Install Google Refine. You can install download and install from here:
http://openrefine.org/download.html
You should install the version called "OpenRefine 2.6-rc2 Release Candidate 2" at the top of the page. builds.)''
The documentation for Google Refine / Open Refine is available here.
There are also a set of nice introductory tutorials available on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Here are helpful pointers to the Open Refine Expression Language