Michael Bauer [mihi]

Member since 06 June 2013

Michael Bauer (RIP) was a biomedical researcher, hacker and activist. After some years of spending his life as a pipette-scientist he noticed he could do something his peers couldn’t: Handle data with ease. He thought: “One needs to do something about this”. Fast-forward over an episode of activism for digital freedom: He joined the School of Data to do exactly this.

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Michael Bauer is a contributor to the following projects.

reconcile-csv

Reconcile-CSV is an OpenRefine reconciliation service running on top of a CSV file. It uses fuzzy matching to find the most likely candidates for matching. If you ever needed to join two datasets that didn’t have unique identifiers and where things are written slightly different:...

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