LibGuides: OpenRefine: Data Mining and Discovery

Data Mining and Discovery

OpenRefine has a many functions for quickly searching, arranging, and contextualizing your data without combing through the data yourself. Facets and filters based on data type (text, number, or date) can be applied and combined to sort, arrange, and contextualize your data for improved discovery and analysis, all while keeping the integrity of the data’s original structure.

Reordering Columns
Reorder your columns for better contextualization or to prepare for further transformations.
Sorting Data
Arrange your data according to defined order within one or more columns.
Text Based Discovery
Search, narrow, and isolate data based on textual information.
Number and Date Based Discovery
Search, narrow, and isolate data based on numeric and date information.

5/22/2018 - Brinna Michael