Comments on: Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Location-tagged events in elmcity hubs « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-145988 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:17:27 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-145988 [...] can syndicate. In response to an earlier item on this topic, Stefano Mazzocchi (Cocoon, Simile, and Google Refine)) offered some thoughts which I’m sharing with his [...]

]]> By: More curation tools http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-135710 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:07:56 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-135710 [...] Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers (jonudell.net) [...]

]]> By: PowerPivot + Gridworks = Wow! « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-133962 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:28:45 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-133962 [...] other piece of this puzzle is Freebase Gridworks, which I’m testing in pre-release. The exercise I’ll describe here is really a [...]

]]> By: Alec Flett http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-133341 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:34:37 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-133341 David Huynh will be giving a hands-on presentation of Gridworks at the SF Freebase meetup next week… so if anyone here really wants to see it in person, come by!

http://www.meetup.com/sf-freebase/calendar/12845548/

]]> By: links for 2010-03-30 http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132841 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:05:01 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132841 [...] Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell Kevin: Jon Udell writes about a project from the team that work on MIT's Project Simile and now working at Metaweb. Jon writes: "As the open data juggernaut picks up steam, a lot of folks are going to discover what some of us have known all along. Much of the data that’s lying around is a mess." They are building a system that will clean up the data, especially the metadata on datasets. This will be a godsend for anyone using messy datasets and speed merge functions and also help with the creation of new 'facets' ( eg a year column from a data column). (tags: data gridworks freebase information metaweb datamining visualization) [...]

]]> By: links for 2010-03-29 « Onlinejournalismtest's Blog http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132786 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:03:08 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132786 [...] Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell RT @mattmcalister: cleanup and analyze #spreadsheet #data with gridworks: http://bit.ly/bSqSBX #tools (tags: tools data spreadsheet via:packrati.us) [...]

]]> By: Freebase Gridworks « Open Analysis http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132780 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:31:51 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132780 [...] By eduprobe Leave a Comment Categories: data Gridworks sounds very exciting. Check out the screencasts linked from Jon Udell’s [...]

]]> By: links for 2010-03-28 « links and tweets http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132776 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:08:45 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132776 [...] Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell (tags: freebase gridworks metaweb) [...]

]]> By: Home Construction Shop Takes a look at Power Drills | Home Construction Shop and Guide http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132775 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:39:32 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132775 [...] Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell [...]

]]> By: Home Construction Shop Safety | Home Construction Shop and Guide http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132769 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:29:09 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132769 [...] Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell [...]

]]> By: Freebase Gridworks: The data curation tool http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132766 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:02:49 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132766 [...] found out about Freebase Gridworks through a post by Jon Udell. In the post, Jon refers to two screencasts on this yet unreleased product. In the Freebase blog [...]

]]> By: Simon Willison http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132739 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:56:06 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132739 I just watched both screencasts: wow! I’ve needed this tool so many times over the past few years (both while working for the Guardian newspaper and for my own personal projects). I can’t wait.

Neil: Gridworks doesn’t need to work for the average joe – it needs to work for expert and semi-expert users (like journalists) who work with this kind of data. And if those users are sharing their results, a dataset only needs to be cleaned up once.

You can bet newspaper infographics departments will be all over this once it’s released.

]]> By: Daily Digest for March 26th at dandube.com http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132716 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:07:30 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132716 [...] Shared Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers. [...]

]]> By: Neil http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132712 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:40:22 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132712 Jon, have any of the many tools like this you’ve seen convinced you that they will see meaningful use?

I’m just not sure the ‘average joe’ is able to do what the expert users who present the screencast can. There’s the data cleaning challenge, the question-posing challenge, the tool-learning challenge … in many cases I think we need someone who can interpret the results we ask for. I’m thinking of NYTimes infographics here.

]]> By: Puzzlepieces – Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell (March 26, 2010) http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/03/26/freebase-gridworks-a-power-tool-for-data-scrubbers/#comment-132696 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:56:53 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2245#comment-132696 [...] Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell – I’ve been a fan of Freebase, it’s Parallax, and SIMILE, but I had no idea that they were all created by the same couple of people. [...]

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