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11.8.12

Google Refine Uploader and Stats Extension

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The Google Refine Uploader Extension allows you to export datasets from Google Refine and post them as JSON to web servers! Intended for use with CouchDB. Please note that this extension is a work in progress. Feel free to join and help 


This extension is based on the Chicago Tribune Stats extension. A tutorial is available on their blog. Please note that the extension does not work with Google Refine 2.5. It should be tested with the 2.0 version available here.

If you have installed and tried any of those two extensions, I`ll be pleased to hear from you!

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Data Shaping in Google Refine – Generating New Rows from Multiple Values in a Single Column

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Data Shaping in Google Refine – Generating New Rows from Multiple Values in a Single Column


Great tutorial to reshape data set using transpose and fill down function. This article also introduce the split multi-valued cells function to split and transpose in one shot.

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