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Today's Deep-Dive: OpenRefine

· 23 min · Episode 391

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In this episode, we take a deep dive into OpenRefine, a powerful open-source tool designed to help anyone clean, structure, and understand messy data without handing it over to the cloud. Starting with the familiar panic of opening a huge, chaotic spreadsheet, we explore how OpenRefine turns that stress into a manageable process through features like faceting, clustering, heuristics, and an infinitely forgiving undo history that makes experimentation safe even for beginners.

Along the way, we unpack what makes the software so distinctive: it runs locally on your machine, keeps sensitive…

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