Handling Data - Data Points: Visualization That Means Something - page 43

FIGurE 2-8 Google Refine user interface

Getting into the more advanced stuff, you can also incorporate data sources
like your own with a dataset from Freebase to create a richer dataset.

 Download
the open-source
Google Refine
and view tutorials
on how to make
the most out of
the tool at http://
code.google.com/
p/google-refine/ .

If anything, Google Refine is a good tool to keep in your back pocket. It's
powerful, and it's a free download, so I highly recommend you at least
fiddle around with the tool.

Mr. DATA CoNVErTEr
Often, you might get all your data in excel but then need to convert it to
another format to fit your needs. This is almost always the case when you