Data
Download this data file to your computer: ./data/eebo.csv
About the data
The data for this lesson is a part of the Data Carpentry Humanities workshop. It is a teaching version of the EEBO/TCP catalogue. 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 EEBO/TCP Texts Repository available on Github, with a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal 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.
Open Refine can be downloaded from https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.1 [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.1]
Windows
- Check that you have Firefox or Chrome browsers installed and set as your default browser. OpenRefine runs in your default browser. It will not run correctly in Internet Explorer.
- Download software
- Unzip the downloaded file into a directory by right-clicking and selecting “Extract…”. Name that directory something like OpenRefine.
- Go to your newly created OpenRefine directory.
- Launch OpenRefine
- Click the google-refine.exe (this will launch a command prompt window, but you can ignore that and wait for the browser to launch)
- If you are using a different browser, or OpenRefine does not automatically open for you, point your browser at http://127.0.0.1:3333/ or http://localhost:3333 to launch the program.
Mac
- Check that you have Firefox or Chrome browsers installed and set as your default browser. OpenRefine runs in your default browser. It will not run correctly in Internet Explorer.
- Download software
- Unzip the downloaded file into a directory by double-clicking it.
- Launch OpenRefine
- Drag icon into Applications folder, and Ctrl-click/Open… it.
- If you are using a different browser, or OpenRefine does not automatically open for you, point your browser at http://127.0.0.1:3333/ or http://localhost:3333 to launch the program.
Linux
- Check that you have Firefox or Chrome browsers installed and set as your default browser. OpenRefine runs in your default browser. It will not run correctly in Internet Explorer.
- Download software
- Unzip the downloaded file into a directory. Name that directory something like OpenRefine.
- Go to your newly created OpenRefine directory.
- Launch OpenRefine
- Type ./refine into the terminal within the OpenRefine directory
- If you are using a different browser, or OpenRefine does not automatically open for you, point your browser at http://127.0.0.1:3333/ or http://localhost:3333 to launch the program.