Google Refine Recipe (from around the web)

Keith Maguire provide a list of short and sweet recipe to Capitalise the first letter, isolating value, faceted browsing or Comparing two columns with Refine. Enjoy!

via Delicious http://www.keithmaguire.net/blog/categories/refine/

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Google Refine Usage Survey Results

Following the survey on Google Refine usage we distribute last week I would like first thanks the 99 persons who participated. Thanks to your answer, we now have a better understanding of who use Google Refine, how and what's the community expectations are.

Thanks again for spreading the word and providing detailed and insightful answers. Here is a first flat analysis of answer collected. You can access details answers here (email addresses have been removed) and the survey questions here.

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Google Refine project administrivia survey

The survey is now closed. For archive purpose please find a copy of the questions below. Thanks to all the participants.

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Open Refine Survey

The survey is now closed. For archive purpose please find a copy of the questions below. Thanks to all the participants.

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From Freebase Gridworks to Google Refine and now OpenRefine

Yesterday David Huynh announced that Google will soon stop its active support of Google Refine and count of community to get more involved to growth Refine.

Refine is already a mature data cleaning tool, this change in leadership will be a major challenge for the tool continuity. But first I'd like to clarify what I have read on twitter yesterday night. Google Refine has always been an open source tool and anyone can commit changes, develop an extension or update the wiki.

Through this post I'd like to give my insight on the reason of this decision and what will be the short terms consequences of it.

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Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi (from around the web)

Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi 

This neat tutorial explained how to import data directly from the twitter API at the project creation stage using JSON language. The second part of the tutorial explains how to prepare the data to import the in Gephi for data visualization purpose.

via Delicious 

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Use Google Refine to clean your data for Fulcrum (from around the web)

Use Google Refine to clean your data for Fulcrum

Fulcrum allow to create location-based data collection apps and deploy them to your mobile device. This tutorial show how to use google refine to take advantages of the data you have collected using fulcrum

via Delicious http://docs.fulcrumapp.com/guides/cleaning-up-data-with-google-refine/

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