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Solve All Your Problems (In Data Cleaning)! : OpenRefine Workshop In-Person
Do these challenges sound familiar?
- Data cleaning takes longer than analysis
- Repeating boring cleaning steps across multiple files
- Large datasets feel overwhelming and hard to navigate
- Need a safe, offline way to clean sensitive data
- Losing track of changes made to raw data
- Data gets messy with many contributors or when it is built over time
If yes, this workshop is for you!
We will introduce you to OpenRefine, a free and open-source tool that makes tabular data cleaning faster, safer, and more transparent helping you to create reliable, understandable and reusable data.
In this session, you will learn how to:
- Import and explore large datasets
- Identify and remove duplicates
- Standardize messy formats
- Cluster variations (like different spellings of the same name)
- Export clean data while keeping your original files intact
- Speed up repetitive tasks by replaying past actions
- Undo changes made
This is a beginners level workshop and no prior experience is required. Just bring your laptop with OpenRefine pre-installed (setup instructions will be provided). Lunch is included!
For questions, contact Dr. Sreenithya Avadakkam, Interoperability Community Manager and Trainer, University Library (s.avadakkam@vu.nl) or Agustin Medina, Research Data Steward (a.medina@vu.nl) .
- Date:
- Thursday, November 6, 2025
- Time:
- 11:00 - 14:30
- Time Zone:
- Central European Time (change)
- Campus:
- OZW gebouw: De Boelelaan 1109 1081 HV Amsterdam
- Audience:
- PhD Post-docs Researchers Student Teachers
- Categories:
- Research Support > Data Management