If you’re busy working with big data then the Google Refine 2.1 update could be for you.
ReadWriteWeb reports that the “New features include:
- HTML parsing functions (based on JSoup)
- Metaphone3 (American English) & Cologne Phonetic (German) coders & clustering
- Google Fusion Table import support
- Facet for exact duplicates
- Ability to star favorite expressions for reuse later
- Latest Apache POI library including a number of Excel bug fixes”
Mashable ran a great introduction to Google Refine late last year with Google’s own accompanying video demo of 2.0.
