I found this really helpful. Not so much to do with the actual article, but to do with actual making me aware of Google Refine. Installation was a breeze. I co

I found this really helpful. Not so much to do with the actual article, but to do with actual making me aware of Google Refine. Installation was a breeze. I couldn't find any instructions, but it was as simple as downloading for Linux, extracting, the running the shell script. http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/downloads/detail?name=google-refine-2.5-r2407.tar.gz&can=1&q= http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/downloads/detail?name... The application automatically opens in a new Chrome window. From here, I grabbed a data dump from one of our external providers. We work with a lot of providers who are really technologically challenged. I'd love to be able to say, here you are.. here is our API, start pushing your content to us. But in practice they don't even know what their XML feeds do. We need their data, but getting a consistent dataset from them when they seem to change their format regularly is a pain! And when importing only 10 or so items at a time it's excruciatingly painful. Today I learnt how easy that can be with Google Refine!