I have not had a chance to use this, but it comes highly recommended. OpenRefine is a program that uses a graphical user interface to clean up messy data, but it saves all the clean up steps to insure that your work is well documented and reproducible. I listed Martin Magdinier as the “author” in the citation below because he has posted most of the blog entries about OpenRefine, but there are many contributors to this package and website.
Martin Magdinier. OpenRefine: A free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data. Available at http://openrefine.org/index.html.
