In order to manipulate my own group’s data to be more useful in answering our research questions, I would need to create charts and visualizations so I could get a better idea of what our data is telling us. I would look for trends, patterns, and outliers. I would use some of the software that we used in our discussion session last Friday in order to figure this out. Using Open Refine, I could manipulate my data by using the Facet menu to make sure all our data is organized properly. Using operations such as cluster, text facet, and changing case, I could make our data categorized correctly. Renaming and splitting some of the columns could help us put the data into our own words without changing the actual data. I would like to be able to see our data easier and be less overwhelmed with it, and I think Open Refine will really help with this.
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Hi,
I also experienced the magic of data cleaning with OpenRefine. I do agree that some datasets are perfectly informative but not perfectly organized. To re-discover the value of those datasets, we do not need to amend the actual data. ‘Renaming and splitting some of the columns” is already enough to enhance the representation of them.