Parsing and extracting HTML tag and links in Refine

I recently helped someone on stackoverflow to parse and extract information from an HTML page.  Refine with GREL offer multiple ways to select specific element and contant. This article will review the main functions and specific use cases to illustrate when to use them.

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

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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