Comments on: SFTW: Scraping data with Google Refine http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2012/01/13/sftw-scraping-data-with-google-refine/ A conversation. Mon, 21 May 2012 12:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Paul Bradshaw http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2012/01/13/sftw-scraping-data-with-google-refine/#comment-371045 Paul Bradshaw Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:56:11 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=15674#comment-371045 Good point - thanks for pointing that out. Good point – thanks for pointing that out.

]]> By: Thad Guidry http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2012/01/13/sftw-scraping-data-with-google-refine/#comment-370995 Thad Guidry Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:39:22 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=15674#comment-370995 Hi Paul, Incidentally, the reason that you probably had the .0 on the end of the ID numbers might have been that perhaps, upon import of your spreadsheet of IDs, you forgot to uncheck the importer option to Parse as numbers ? Hi Paul,

Incidentally, the reason that you probably had the .0 on the end of the ID numbers might have been that perhaps, upon import of your spreadsheet of IDs, you forgot to uncheck the importer option to Parse as numbers ?

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