Rockefeller Library, Digital Studio Seminar Room (Rock 160)
OpenRefine is an powerful open source tool for quickly cleaning up textual and numeric tabular data. It can be a lifesaver for scholars who need to work with data and metadata from scholarly databases, archives, and other sources and who want to manipulate formats and discover inconsistencies. This hands-on course is primarily aimed at social scientists and humanists, but all are welcome. Some familiarity with regular expressions (pattern matching syntax) will be helpful.