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19.9.11

Use google refine to navigate data solely (facet, filter, flag)

Google refine can also be used to solely navigate and explore data without editing them. I find it very useful to explore large data-set thanks to its good user interface, this avoid to develop a specific one to visualize data. In this post I will present the three mains option to interact with the data: facet, text filer and flags.

18.9.11

Google Refine 2.0 Training video

In this video you will learn to:

8.9.11

countif in google refine with facetCount

Countif is an expression in Excel that count every time a value appears in a determine zone of your spreadsheet. Google refine support the same function to count every time a value appears in a column.

1.9.11

vlookup in google refine

vlookup is a very useful formula in Excel and it has is equivalent in google refine under the name cell.cross. Using this expression you can import data from a google refine project to an other based on a key value.

19.8.11

Merge records spread on multiple rows

This article will go through steps to gather on the content of the same row spread on two rows. This method can be extended when a single record is hosted on multiple rows.

15.8.11

Remove duplicate rows

This is a quick tutorial to remove duplicate rows or records based on one field. This turial is adapated (add screenshot) from David Huynh answer on the google refine mailing list.

28.7.11

remove " (quotation) mark

Hard time removing the " (quote sign) from your expression. Instead of quoting your quote mark with double quote, do it with simple like this :