How to Use Google Refine to Fill Gaps in a Dataset

This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact In our first video training session, we presented a walkthrough of how to organize USEITI data for use in the open source mapping software QGIS. Fortunately, that dataset included geographic identifiers called Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) county codes–five digit codes identifying counties and county equivalents throughout the United States. However, not every dataset…