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| OpenRefine | TypeTools | |
|---|---|---|
| 45 | 2 | |
| 10,448 | 605 | |
| 1.5% | - | |
| 9.7 | 1.1 | |
| 7 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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OpenRefine
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Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
"OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data." https://openrefine.org/
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What you need to know about the future of Mozilla Hubs
Yes, let's hope! The strategy has worked out sometimes - Google shut down 'Google Refine' 10 years ago, it got turned into 'Open Refine', last update 2 months ago. https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine
It's a hugely useful tool if you're working with messy Excel-scale data, i.e., most biologists or social scientists.
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OpenRefine
It seems to be pure JS with jQuery: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/blob/master/main/we...
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java string equals returns false, even for identical strings
EDIT: trim() does not remove unicode 0x200b (unicode character for zero width space). https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/5105 is worth a read.
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UIUC MCS - CS 513 Review - Theory and Practice of Data Cleaning
There were six homework assignments. In order they were Regular Expressions, OpenRefine, Datalog, SQL, Provenance, and Python. None of these assignments took more than two to three hours to complete. They all were basic implementation and programming assignments with autograders.
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"We have great datasets"
Open Refine will get you about 70% there. It's FOSS
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Is there any tools to streamline data cleaning process?
I’ve heard good things about https://openrefine.org/
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What is the best approach to removing duplicate person records if the only identifier is person firstname middle name and last name? These names are entered in varying ways to the DB, thus they are free-fromatted.
It's not suited to SQL, use Open Refine or python fuzzywuzzy.
TypeTools
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Java is becoming more like Rust, and I am here for it
There are some (imperfect) workarounds, ex: https://github.com/jhalterman/typetools
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Get type of List<T> for passing as parameter
There’s a trick to get type involving subclasses, see https://github.com/jhalterman/typetools
What are some alternatives?
CQEngine - Ultra-fast SQL-like queries on Java collections
Membrane Service Proxy - API gateway for REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL and SOAP written in Java.
visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
Togglz - Feature Flags for the Java platform
LightAdmin - [PoC] Pluggable CRUD UI library for Java web applications
FF4J - Feature Flags for Java made easy
Smooks - Extensible data integration Java framework for building XML and non-XML fragment-based applications
sitemapgen4j - SitemapGen4j is a library to generate XML sitemaps in Java.
Jimfs - An in-memory file system for Java 7+
JBake - Java based open source static site/blog generator for developers & designers.
J2ObjC - A Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime.