Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

In this workshop, we will go through the basic functionalities of OpenRefine, a data cleaning tool used in many projects including the Panama papers and the Danske Bank money laundering story. You will learn to match data against authoritative sources such as OpenCorporates or Wikidata, cluster similar values in a column, and many other useful tricks. After attending this session, participants will be able to automate otherwise tedious data cleaning tasks. To attend this session, no prior knowledge is required. The necessary software will be installed on the school computers. If you are using your own laptop will need to install OpenRefine and check that it runs before the session.