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members-only post Oct 14, 2014 3-min read

A few months ago, I wrote about the Google Refine tool to cleanse impure, duplicate, and incomplete data. I thought that it was a pretty neat tool but also that could be improved. As it turns out, others agreed. The project was recently renamed OpenRefine and ported over to GitHub, the most popular web-based hosting service for software development projects using the Git revision control system. (Read the history of the project here.)

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