Google Refine. Data conversion and manipulation

In my business, I often do data converion. Google Refine aids in that considerably. For example, you’ve merged several mailing lists and discovered that data in one of the fields has been entered multiple ways and needs to be standardized. Google Refine allows you to do that with a couple of mouse clicks. Sweet.

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Aggregating data from multiple Craigslists with Yahoo Pipes

One of my computer programming specialties is data conversion, moving data from one format to another. I’ve been using Craigslist to hunt for jobs with “data conversion” in the listing. But there are hundreds of Craigslist locations, so I wanted to automate it. SearchTempest (formerly Craigslist Helper) will search multiple Craigslists for keywords. It presents [...]