Cleaning Your Data with OpenRefine

Workshop

Friday, November 11th 2022
9 – 11:30
P612 Computational Humanities Lab (Hauptcampus Leipzig University, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig)

Language of instruction: English (but questions can be made in German)

Do you have a dataset with years you wish to extract from dates, with variances in names or with other messy inconsistencies you wish to explore and normalize?
Learn how to explore, clean, and enrich your data using a free tool developed by Google: OpenRefine. Details will be shared in an email once you’ve registered.
There are only 12 spots – so register now and secure yours!

The workshop will take place in English. Please bring you own laptop. No prior technical knowledge is necessary to participate in the workshop. If you want to participate in this face-to-face workshop, please register here. Please consider the Leipzig University Covid-19 regulations.


The workshop will be held by Silvia Gutiérrez. She is a PhD candidate and DAAD Scholarship recipient at the Computational Humanities Group in Leipzig. She is a trained digital humanist (Würzburg University / King’s College London) with a background in Linguistics and Spanish philology. In her PhD, she investigates state-of-the-art text mining approaches to detect and extract patterns in thousands of digitized dissertations.