UTS - Cleaning & exploring your data with Open Refine

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UTS - Cleaning & exploring your data with Open Refine

By Intersect Australia

Date and time

Fri, 5 Dec 2014 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM AEDT

Location

University of Technology, Sydney

Room CB04.03.38 (Building 4) 769 Harris Street Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia

Description

Cleaning & Exploring your data with Open Refine – Course Outline

Dates: 5 December 2014

Time: 1:30 - 4:00pm

Location: UTS, Room CB04.03.38 (Building 4), Harris St, Ultimo

Equipment: Computer Training Lab*

Cost: Free to Researchers and PhD students at Intersect's member Universities

This three hour workshop introduces Open Refine which is a powerful tool for cleaning, normalisation and exploration of datasets.

In this tutorial we'll work through the various features of Refine, including importing data, faceting, clustering, and calling into remote APIs, by working on a fictional but plausible humanities research project.

We’ll start with a research question in mind and use the features of Refine to gain insights and find answers. The research question relates to NSW police stations — finding out what we can about where they are located, their heritage status, and the kinds of archival records State Records NSW holds on them.

* You will need a UTS log-in to access the computers in the training room.

However you can also bring your own laptop to this course if you prefer - but PLEASE make sure it is eduroam enabled to be able to access the internet.

For more information about the Intersect L&D Program, please refer to http://www.intersect.org.au/training

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Intersect is a pivotal part of Australian research landscapeWe provide robust, innovative services and collaborative technology to support world-class research at our member organisations and in the wider research community

Intersect delivers data storage, compute and analysis platforms, custom engineering, expert consulting and training programs to thousands of researchers every year

Intersect works closely with the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) built from ANDS, Nectar, and RDS

Intersect is a member of the Software Carpentry Foundation, the NCI (National Computational Infrastructure) and the AAF (Australian Access Federation)

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