Data Cleaning in OpenRefine (Library Skills Week 2021)

If you have ever worked with data, you may have spent the majority of your time preparing it for analysis. The purpose of this workshop is to guide you through the basics of OpenRefine, a powerful and free tool used for wrangling small to medium-sized spreadsheets, and demonstrate the data cleaning techniques you can use on your datasets. NOTE: This workshop provides a brief overview of OpenRefine functionality. Hands-on activities can be accessed through Data Carpentry module Data Cleaning with OpenRefine for Ecologists.

Presenter: Daria Orlowska, Data Librarian

Bio: Daria is dedicated to supporting all of your data needs. As a former behavioral sciences research assistant, she bases her workshops on first-hand experience with the frustration of managing data.

This video is a recording of an online workshop given during Library Skills Week on Nov. 19, 2021.