Find & Prep Data Your Data

2,460 views · Published 23 October 2017 · 47:19 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: Tableau · 2017 · Science & Technology

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This webinar was presented on 19 October 2017. In it, we cover finding data sets on a variety of topics, and cleaning data, either directly in Tableau or using the free tool Open Refine.

Below is the content shared during the webinar: 
I/ Finding Data
- Data is Plural newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural
- Makeover Monday project: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/
- If This Then That (to automate data collection with recipes) : https://ifttt.com/recipes
- Data.world (data sharing platform) : https://data.world/
- Enigma (open data platform) : https://app.enigma.io/
- Kaggle (data science platform) : https://www.kaggle.com/?
- Blog post 'Google Sheet Import formulas' : https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/blog/2016/08/webscraping-everybody-using-import-functions-google-sheets

II/ Preparing Data: 
- Blog post 'Data prepping explained' : https://public.tableau.com/en-us /s/blog/2016/05/data-prepping-and-data-cleaning-tableau-explained 
- Download Open Refine : https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Downloads
- Open Refine Tutorial : http://enipedia.tudelft.nl/wiki/OpenRefine_Tutorial#Installation

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