Week 5 - Cleaning

• 2025-02-11
• 9:30-10:45
• Shannon 317

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Guiding Questions

• What is the importance of clean, tidy data?
• How do we fix problems with our data?

Pre-work

• Open Refine Documentation; install and work through each piece of the documentation, stopping after you finish the section on reconciling.
• Matt Lincoln on Tidy Data
• Download the Audible datasets for use in class. Taken from this kaggle repository Leave them as zip files - don’t uncompress them. Download links:
  • Audible Uncleaned
  • Audible Cleaned

Plan

• Introduction: On Cleaning
• Activity: Workshop on Google Open Refine
• Slides linked here

Homework

• Work through this lesson on The Programming Historian. Send a screenshot of your successful results along by Friday at 9:00 AM.