OpenRefine

OpenRefine is a comprehensive tool designed to help you manage messy data sets smoother and clean inconsistencies that commonly lead to errors. The primary idea behind the utility is to provide you with a means to import data sets and then extend their functionality by adding support for other types of databases.

Alternatively, you can include new web services into your data sets, an option that can come in handy for the times when you want to connect your database to a new infrastructure. Speaking of infrastructures, the tool comes with a reconciliation function that allowS you to link text names in your data to create identifiers. It goes without saying that connecting data with other databases you get more value out of your data.

The trump card of the application stems from the method used to tackle complicated tasks. To put it simply, if you need to complete tasks that entail web scraping, analyze Apache logs, translate street addresses to coordinates with latitude and longitude or just want to remove duplicate row values, you can follow the recipes that have been discovered by other users.

If you habitually manage large databases and would like to clean up cluttered and chaotic data with less time and energy, then OpenRefine permits you to do so directly from your browser.