OpenRefine

OpenRefine is a sophisticated tool for working on big data and perform analytics. OpenRefine is able to perform various tasks on data. The tasks are, cleaning data, transformation of data from one form into the other format, and also extend with web services and data that are external.

OpenRefine provides the explore data feature that enables data scientists go through large data sets with ease. The explore data feature is easy to be used as it also comes with a video explaining how it is used. The clean and transform data feature provided by OpenRefine enables data scientists also clean Big data and transform it from one form into the other. The clean and transform data feature also works as a useful tool for analytics in scientific computing.

OpenRefine also provides reconcile and match data feature. The reconcile and match data feature extends datasets with several web services. With OpenRefine, data scientists can upload their cleaned data to a central database for processing or transforming it into another form. OpenRefine also provides a growing list of plugins and extensions that make all the processes of working on big data easy. OpenRefine also provides the name entity extraction that is applied on large text fields and automatically identifies topics.

The general refine expression language provided by OpenRefine enables data scientists to perform advanced data operations on Big data. OpenRefine also provides the regular expressions that data scientists, end users and developers use for filtering and portioning their data easily. The regular expressions also work on analytics and large data sets.