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When I saw Day 1 was OpenRefine, I figured that was because they didn't want to teach this crowd programming, a perfectly fine decision.

But then they go and teach them Python anyways? If you're gonna do that, why not skip OpenRefine and teach them numpy/scipy/pandas/matplotlib for analysis and visualization?

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>why not skip OpenRefine and teach them numpy/scipy/pandas/matplotlib for analysis and visualization

OpenRefine is fantastic for cleaning and imputing missing data, especially for this audience. I don't think they are teaching users to do a lot of analysis and visualization in OpenRefine.

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