Open Refine for Ecology: Setup

Data

Download this data file to your computer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kbb4k00eanm19lg/Portal_rodents_19772002_scinameUUIDs.csv

About the data

The data for this lesson is a part of the Data Carpentry Ecology workshop. It is a teaching version of the Portal Database. The data in this lesson is a subset of the teaching version that has been intentionally ‘messed up’ for this lesson.

The data for this lesson and the workshop are in the Portal Project Teaching Database available on FigShare, with a CC-BY license available for reuse.

Software

For this lesson you will need OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) and a web browser.

Note: this is a Java program that runs on your machine (not in the cloud). It runs inside your browser, but no web connection is needed.

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