Using OpenRefine: The Essential OpenRefine Guide That Takes You from Data Analysis and Error Fixing to Linking Your Dataset to the Web - Brossura

Verborgh, Ruben; De Wilde, Max

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ISBN 10: 1783289082 ISBN 13: 9781783289080

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

Data is supposed to be the new gold, but how can you unlock the value in your data? Managing large datasets used to be a task for specialists, but you don't have to worry about inconsistencies or errors anymore. OpenRefine lets you clean, link, and publish your dataset in a breeze.

Using OpenRefine takes you on a practical tour of all the handy features of this well-known data transformation tool. It is a hands-on recipe book that teaches you data techniques by example. Starting from the basics, it gradually transforms you into an OpenRefine expert.

This book will teach you all the necessary skills to handle any large dataset and to turn it into high-quality data for the Web. After you learn how to analyze data and spot issues, we'll see how we can solve them to obtain a clean dataset. Messy and inconsistent data is recovered through advanced techniques such as automated clustering. We'll then show extract links from keyword and full-text fields using reconciliation and named-entity extraction.

Using OpenRefine is more than a manual: it's a guide stuffed with tips and tricks to get the best out of your data.

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L'autore

Ruben Verborgh

Ruben Verborgh is a PhD researcher in semantic hypermedia, and is fascinated by the Web's immense possibilities. He tries to contribute ideas that will maybe someday slightly influence the way the Web changes all of us. His degree in Computer Science Engineering convinced him more than ever that communication is the most crucial thing for IT-based solutions. This is why he really enjoys explaining things to those eager to learn. In 2011, he launched the Free Your Metadata project together with Seth van Hooland and Max De Wilde, which aims to evangelize the importance of putting your data on the Web. This book is one of the assets in this continuing quest.

Ruben currently works at Multimedia Lab, a research group of iMinds, Ghent University, Belgium, in the domains of the Semantic Web, web APIs, and adaptive hypermedia. Together with Seth van Hooland, he's currently writing Linked Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, a practical guide for metadata practitioners.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1783289082
• ISBN 13: 9781783289080
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 95