OpenRefine for Health Sciences: Part 2

Class Experience Level
Beginner, Intermediate

This course will introduce librarians and information professionals to practical data skills and provide examples and ways to incorporate OpenRefine into library work. OpenRefine is designed for a broad audience that includes anyone who needs to clean, transform, and analyze large datasets. This class is for Librarians and information professionals, especially those who work with health/health-related information, who have limited or no experience with OpenRefine or other data manipulation tools.

This course supports the NLM/NIH strategic plan goal of building a data-driven workforce by increasing awareness of open data tools and their functions in order to address health information resources and data literacy.

Objectives:
  • Apply transformations to strings, numbers, dates and Booleans to programmatically edit data and prepare data for analysis.
  • Write expressions using General Refine Expression Language (GREL)

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Class Details

Date(s): September 16, 2025
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Platform: Webex
CE Credits: 1.00
CE Categories: MLA, Data Services Specialization (DSS) Level 1
This class is sponsored by NCDS.
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Class Contacts

Host/Instructor: Christine Nieman
Technical Assistance: Javier Martinez

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