http://flowingdata.com/2008/12/12/magically-reformat-data-to-get-it-how-you-need-it/ Strength in Numbers Wed, 23 May 2012 21:06:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://flowingdata.com/2008/12/12/magically-reformat-data-to-get-it-how-you-need-it/#comment-21813 dylan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:41:08 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1180#comment-21813 It does look nice. Dabbledb look interesting. You may also want to check out Mass Edit from MIT. It seems to do everything at least in the Magic/Replace video and is non-corporate. I came across it quite a while ago when I was checking out their SIMILE project (also some great free tools) and was very impressed http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/mass-edit/ It does look nice. Dabbledb look interesting. You may also want to check out Mass Edit from MIT. It seems to do everything at least in the Magic/Replace video and is non-corporate. I came across it quite a while ago when I was checking out their SIMILE project (also some great free tools) and was very impressed http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/mass-edit/

]]> http://flowingdata.com/2008/12/12/magically-reformat-data-to-get-it-how-you-need-it/#comment-21780 wwwald Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:45:32 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1180#comment-21780 Looks very nice! But IMHO, if you've got the time, it's better to just learn regular expressions and work with a decent text editor that can apply them. Once you get the hang of it, it's as powerful and fast as anything. Looks very nice!
But IMHO, if you’ve got the time, it’s better to just learn regular expressions and work with a decent text editor that can apply them. Once you get the hang of it, it’s as powerful and fast as anything.

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