RapidFuzz is a fast string matching library for Python and C++, which is using the string similarity calculations from FuzzyWuzzy. However there are two aspects that set RapidFuzz apart from ...

Fuzzy string matching is an essential tool in data engineering, NLP, search systems, and record-linkage tasks. Real-world data is messy — misspellings, casing differences, abbreviations, and partial ...

Apparently, not everything scraped from the web comes with a clean, unique identifier. Last month, I wrapped up a project where I needed to merge ~20,000 records for an upcoming study — but none of ...

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