https://github.com/datacarpentry/openrefine-socialsci
OpenRefine for Social Science Data
https://github.com/datacarpentry/openrefine-socialsci
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OpenRefine for Social Science Data
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/datacarpentry/openrefine-socialsci
- Owner: datacarpentry
- License: other
- Created: 2017-05-25T16:29:10.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-03-10T00:13:13.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-10T07:46:55.832Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: carpentries, data-carpentry, data-cleaning, data-management, english, hacktoberfest, lesson, open-educational-resources, openrefine, social-sciences, stable
- Homepage: https://datacarpentry.org/openrefine-socialsci/
- Size: 12.5 MB
- Stars: 25
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 47
- Open Issues: 23
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE.md
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Citation: CITATION
- Authors: AUTHORS
- Zenodo: .zenodo.json
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# OpenRefine for Social Sciences
This is a Data Carpentry lesson on OpenRefine for social scientists.
Please see for a rendered version of this lesson.
This is an introduction to [OpenRefine] designed for participants with no previous experience.
This lesson can be taught in ~ 2 hours, excluding setup.
The episodes in this lesson cover introductory topics related to using OpenRefine.
The [Instructor View][in] shows the lesson contents with extra information that is useful
when teaching this lesson.
## Contributing
We welcome all contributions to improve the lesson!
The [maintainers](#maintainers) will do their best to help you if you have any
questions, concerns, or experience any difficulties along the way.
We'd like to ask you to familiarize yourself with our [Contribution Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) and
have a look at the [more detailed guidelines][sandpaper-docs] on using formatting, ways to render
the lesson locally, and even how to write new episodes.
Please see the current list of [issues][ghri] for ideas for contributing to this lesson.
For making your contribution, we use the [GitHub flow][github-flow].
Look for the tag .
This indicates that the maintainers will welcome a pull request fixing this issue.
### Making changes to the contents
*Please read [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) before starting the work.
This section and the next are only a very brief introduction to providing changes.*
This lesson website is built from Markdown files using The Workbench, a set of tools
that check and convert the source files into a good-looking website.
The episodes that make up this lesson are in the `episodes` directory.
Learn [how to update lesson contents](https://carpentries.github.io/sandpaper-docs/episodes.html) in The Workbench documentation.
If you want to create a pull request (PR) with changes in any of the episodes or other Markdown
files, it helps if you can preview the results of your changes before you submit the PR.
This is explained in the next section.
Previewing is not required. If you submit your PR, automated workflows will run and a bot
will inform you about the results.
### Previewing the lesson on your computer
*This is helpful for submitting a pull request, but not required.*
Previewing the lesson on your computer requires that you install The Workbench tools.
Please see the [instructions for setting up The Workbench on your computer][sandpaper-docs].
After setting up, see [Previewing Your New Lesson][check] to learn how to preview your changes.
## Maintainers
The current maintainers of this lesson are:
- [Ben Companjen](https://github.com/bencomp)
- [Marijane White](https://github.com/marijane)
They can usually be reached in our [Slack channel] and through [issues in the GitHub
repository][ghri].
[Slack channel]: https://carpentries.slack.com/messages/C9Y0UEXPY
[in]: https://datacarpentry.org/openrefine-socialsci/instructor/index.html
[sandpaper-docs]: https://carpentries.github.io/sandpaper-docs/index.html
[ghri]: https://github.com/datacarpentry/openrefine-socialsci/issues
[github-flow]: https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
[check]: https://carpentries.github.io/sandpaper-docs/introduction.html#preview
[OpenRefine]: https://openrefine.org/