Chapter 2. Analyzing and Fixing Data
In this chapter, we will go deeper into OpenRefine and review most of its basic functionalities intended for data fixing and analysis. We will cover the following topics, spread over six recipes:
- Recipe 1 – sorting data
- Recipe 2 – faceting data
- Recipe 3 – detecting duplicates
- Recipe 4 – applying a text filter
- Recipe 5 – using simple cell transformations
- Recipe 6 – removing matching rows
Even more so than in Chapter 1, Diving Into OpenRefine, the recipes are designed to allow readers to jump from one recipe to another in any way you like, depending on your needs and interests. Flowing reading of the chapter is also possible of course, but not mandatory at all.
Be warned that recipes are unequal in length; some are quite ...
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