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OpenRefine is an open source tool for cleaning and transforming messy data. Programming questions about its expression language (GREL) may be more appropriate for Stack Overflow.

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Embed URL in text of OpenRefine cell

I am working on a project using open refine to search then send users to the relevant link for data that is hard to search. My current URLs to access the records take the form www.mywebsite.com/?...
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Wikidata reconciliation with OpenRefine—get only those subjects with English as the language flag

Leptospermum scoparium (Q1520028) has 8 common name (P1843) entries. I have data in OpenRefine reconciled to this object: How can I get only those P1843 entries that are in English? The ...
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What's a good resource for learning OpenRefine?

The book, Using OpenRefine, has been a really good resource, but is there anything better?
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Load data from HTML tables into OpenRefine?

One answer to the question Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format) suggested to use OpenRefine for handling HTML tables. All I could find regarding OpenRefine and HTML tables were ...
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What does OpenRefine offer that other data-parsing tools don't?

I see OpenRefine mentioned a lot here, but I don't see it doing much that R and others can't. What capabilities does it offer that I'm not seeing in the promo page that R or other data packages ...
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