๐ชท The Pond #11: Cleaning up
Let's dig into the dirt ๐ธ๐งน
by Ada Homolova · September 3, 2026
Hello, my dear Frosches!
I hope you had a wonderful summer! We’re slowly but surely getting back on track and jumping back into The Pond.
This month’s newsletter is a short one: we have two sessions dedicated to a data analyst’s most favorite part of the job: cleaning! ๐งน
Read all about them below.
Happening at The Pond
๐งฝ Cleaning is glorious : what sort of a mess can you come across and how do you deal with that ๐ฉ? Join Ada Homolova and Jonathan Stoneman in a conversation and practical demonstration of data cleaning with various tools on Thu 10 September, 14:30 CET meeting link
๐งผ OpenRefine meets AI: Hervรฉ Letoqueux from Checkfirst will demonstrate how you can enhance the data cleaning power house OpenRefine with Large Language Models and turn messy data into investigation-ready datasets, one practical AI-assisted workflow at a time. Come join us on Thu 24 September, 14:00 CEST. meeting link
Mentorships
Want to level up your data skills with 1:1 personal attention and hands-on guidance? Book one, two, three or four 1:1 sessions with me and we can build each session around whatever you're working on.
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With ๐ and ๐ธ,
Ada
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