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Data

Download this data file to your computer: https://figshare.com/s/6fe692e2883347b4c15f

About the data

The data for this lesson is a part of the Data Carpentry Natural History Collections workshop. It is a teaching version of a download of rodent data from the http://portal.idigbio.org/ for use in Open Refine for the Natural History Science Collections (NHC) Lessons for Data Carpentry. See more information about the NHC datasets for Data Carpentry on figshare.

Dataset description: common rodents in the continental United States from major institutions that publish extended information about their specimens. There are 10,767 rows in the idigbio_rodents.csv file. The data in this lesson are just a small subset of the available data at http://portal.idigbio.org. Data aggregated for this experience have been intentionally 'messed up' for this lesson.

The data for this lesson are at https://figshare.com/s/6fe692e2883347b4c15f on Figshare, with a CC-BY license available for reuse. {: .prereq}

Software

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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.

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 from http://openrefine.org
  • 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 from http://openrefine.org
  • Unzip the downloaded file into a directory by double-clicking it. Name that directory something like OpenRefine.
  • Go to your newly created OpenRefine directory.
  • 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 from http://openrefine.org
  • 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.