The Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) is a simple standard for messy data. It is based on spreadsheet formats such as CSV or Excel. The standard works by adding hashtags with semantic information in the row between the column header and data allow software to validate, clean, merge and analyse data more easily. To learn more about HXL and who’s currently using it, visit the HXL standard site.

HDX is currently adding features to visualise HXL-tagged data. To learn more about HXL and who’s currently using it, visit the HXL standard site.