Welcome to the OpenRefine Guide. Here you will find information about OpenRefine and its amazing features for working with tabular data.
- OpenRefine was initially called Freebase Gridworks (developed by David Huynh at Metaweb), then became GoogleRefine when Metaweb was acquired, and finally was open-sourced as OpenRefine.
- It is free, open source software that runs locally on your computer.
- It is set to operate with 1 gigabyte (GB) of memory.
- Project data is stored in the ‘workspace directory.’
OpenRefine can help you to:
- Analyze: understand your data.
- Clean: fix errors or inconsistencies.
- Transform: structure your data to desired formats.
- Reproduce: reproduce and automate workflows.
This LibGuide is based on OpenRefine 3.8.0.
