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OpenRefine for Social Science Data
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OpenRefine for Social Sciences

This is a Data Carpentry lesson on OpenRefine for social scientists. Please see https://datacarpentry.org/openrefine-socialsci/ for a rendered version of this lesson.

This is an introduction to OpenRefine designed for participants with no previous experience. This lesson can be taught in ~ 2 hours, excluding setup. The episodes in this lesson cover introductory topics related to using OpenRefine.

The Instructor View shows the lesson contents with extra information that is useful when teaching this lesson.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to improve the lesson! The maintainers will do their best to help you if you have any questions, concerns, or experience any difficulties along the way.

We'd like to ask you to familiarize yourself with our Contribution Guide and have a look at the more detailed guidelines on using formatting, ways to render the lesson locally, and even how to write new episodes.

Please see the current list of issues for ideas for contributing to this lesson. For making your contribution, we use the GitHub flow. Look for the tag good\_first\_issue. This indicates that the maintainers will welcome a pull request fixing this issue.

Making changes to the contents

Please read Contributing before starting the work. This section and the next are only a very brief introduction to providing changes.

This lesson website is built from Markdown files using The Workbench, a set of tools that check and convert the source files into a good-looking website. The episodes that make up this lesson are in the episodes directory.

Learn how to update lesson contents in The Workbench documentation.

If you want to create a pull request (PR) with changes in any of the episodes or other Markdown files, it helps if you can preview the results of your changes before you submit the PR. This is explained in the next section. Previewing is not required. If you submit your PR, automated workflows will run and a bot will inform you about the results.

Previewing the lesson on your computer

This is helpful for submitting a pull request, but not required.

Previewing the lesson on your computer requires that you install The Workbench tools. Please see the instructions for setting up The Workbench on your computer.

After setting up, see Previewing Your New Lesson to learn how to preview your changes.

Maintainers

The current maintainers of this lesson are:

They can usually be reached in our Slack channel and through issues in the GitHub repository.