How OpenRefine can help your next data projects? User showcase.


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Messy and unreliable data may slow down and jeopardize your data project. Data cleaning, preparation and transformation takes up an enormous amount of time but are necessary steps for data migration,
OpenRefine (formerly Freebase Gridworks and Google Refine) provides domain experts a powerful yet easy-to-use interfaces to explore new data sets, normalize them, enrich and extend them.
For our next event Nov 17 at Brightlane to get the latest news from the OpenRefine community and discover use case presentation by OpenRefine users from various fields including data scientist, consultants, journalists, librarians and civic user.
Free pizza and drinks.
Speakers List:
Bianca Wylie (https://twitter.com/biancawylie), Head of Open Data Institute Toronto (http://oditoronto.org/)
Business Technical Consultant Heerbod Etemadi (http://www.itcentralstation.com/users/heerbod-etemadi)
More to be confirmed
Audience:
Anyone interested in data, with or without experience using OpenRefine.
Agenda:
6.00- 6.15: Doors Open
6.15 - 6.30: Introduction
6.15 - 7.15: Use case of OpenRefine presentation in various field.
7.15 - 8.00: Questions and Answers followed by networking session.
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How OpenRefine can help your next data projects? User showcase.