OpenRefine usage survey

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Earlier this year the community had a discussion regarding the substainibility of the community and draft for a bounty model and governance model have been proposed with little feedback from the community.

Looking back at it, I think I might have been rushing to the conclusion (the dev. community is broken and need to be fixed using x y z) and I didn't validate if there is actually a problem from the user community point of view. So I put together a short survey to get your feedback on your perception of the support and bug fixes and new feature development.

Thanks for your time and please spread this survey to as many OpenRefine user you know!

A little bit about yourself

Communities you identify with

choose the category that describe you the most

Data journalists

Open Data / Government enthusiasts

Research Purpose

Cultural Heritage Data Enthusiast

For Profit / Business

Librarians

Semantic Web

Other:

Clear selection

How often do you use OpenRefine

For how long have you been using OpenRefine

How will you rate your skills using OpenRefine

Novice

Expert

Clear selection

High-level tasks you do with OpenRefine

check all that apply

Data transformation (one format to another)

Understanding data you don't own

Normalizing data (e.g., fixing spelling mistakes)

Preparing data to load into other system (database, cloud application, CRM, freebase ....)

Reconciliation against other data set

Taxonomy/Metadata

Preparing a dataset before visualization in an other application (R, D3, Tableau, Fusion Table ...)

Other:

OpenRefine Support

How would you rate the quality of support from those channel

Not using this channel

I didn't get my answer / the answer was not helpful

The answer was a lead and I needed to explore based on it

I got an answer and it is working

Answer the question and went beyond expectation

OpenRefine mailing list

Other online community (stackoverflow, discussion board ....)

I ask someone I know (friends or coworker)

I attend formal training

I learn by myself

Clear selection

How responsive each channel is when you seek support

Not using this channel

No response to my question

I found a solution before my request been answered

I have to wait to get my answer

Immediate answer

OpenRefine mailing list

Other online community (stackoverflow, discussion board ....)

I ask someone I know (friends or coworker)

I attend formal training

I learn by myself

Clear selection

What is your experience with bug fix and feature request

Check all that apply

I have nothing to report, I am happy how things are.

I would like to report something but I don't know how

I reported something and nothing happen

I reported something, it is fixed but not how I expected

I reported something, it is fixed and I am happy

bug fix (ie OpenRefine is broken)

feature request (ie add a new functionality / behaviour)

Clear selection

Can you provide more when you reported something or asked for support and things didn't move as whished?

OpenRefine version and distribution

Which version of OpenRefine do you run?

Google Refine 2.0

Google Refine 2.1

Google Refine 2.5

OpenRefine 2.6

I don't know

I build against the development version

Clear selection

Do you use plugin or extension?

Check all that apply

Crowdsourcing extension - by Zemanta

DBpedia extension - by Zemanta

History tools, cross cell tools, pivot tool and scatterplot tool using D3 - by VIB-BITS

Diff plugin- by VIB-BITS

LMF Extension- by Salzburg Research

Named-Entity Recognition - by Ruben Verborgh (Free Your Metadata)

RDF extension - by DERI

Stats extension updated by sparkica for Refine 2.5 +

I don't use plugin or extension

Other:

Would you be interested in an hosted/cloud version of OpenRefine

yes

Clear selection

Why?

Can you explain motivation that make you intesrested or not in an hosted version of OpenRefine

Your perception of OpenRefine

Which features make you choose Refine as opposed to another tools?

What tool would you have used instead

How do you describe Refine to someone else?

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