danwin.com » data-cleaning https://danwin.com Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 Google Refine, a.k.a. Gridworks 2.0 released; ProPublica’s “Dollars for Docs” featured. https://danwin.com/2010/11/googlerefine-a-k-a-gridworks-2-0-released-propublicas-dollars-for-docs-featured/ https://danwin.com/2010/11/googlerefine-a-k-a-gridworks-2-0-released-propublicas-dollars-for-docs-featured/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:39:40 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1409 Good news for data-nerds everywhere. The 2.0 version of Google’s fantastic data-cleaning tool, Google Refine (formerly Gridworks), has been released. And they were nice enough to feature ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs as an example of a use-case. I talked briefly to BusinessJournalism.org about how I used Refine to put together the pharma top earners list. […]

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]]> Good news for data-nerds everywhere. The 2.0 version of Google’s fantastic data-cleaning tool, Google Refine (formerly Gridworks), has been released. And they were nice enough to feature ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs as an example of a use-case. I talked briefly to BusinessJournalism.org about how I used Refine to put together the pharma top earners list.

It’s possible I could’ve done it using SQL queries and Ruby libraries. But I definitely would’ve missed a lot of matches, and probably overdosed on over-the-counter pharma-painkillers.

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