Tool data cleaning data evaluation CSV All About CSV Fingerprint

• By Erin Kissane, Victor Powell
• Victor Powell

CSV Fingerprints creator Victor Powell talks about the tool’s inception, inner workings, and potential to help data-slingers in newsrooms finally ditch Excel.

Tool CSV Python de-duplication dedupe Introducing csvdedupe

• By Derek Eder, Forest Gregg
• Derek Eder, Forest Gregg

Introducing csvdedupe, an open source command line tool for de-duplication and entity resolution.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Mar 18

• By Erika Owens

The Knight News Challenge deadline is today Tuesday at 5pm Eastern Daylight Time. (Due to technical difficulties, the deadline has been extended one day.)

Update opennews Source launches Oct. 16

• By Erin Kissane
• Erika Owens, Ryan Pitts, Dan Sinker
• OpenNews

As ONA12 gets going in San Francisco, we’re hitting the last stretch with Source, the OpenNews community and index for news development. We even have a launch date, and it’s…really soon.