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  Splink: Fast, accurate and scalable record linkage
link: 'https://dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2022/09/23/splink-fast-accurate-and-scalable-record-linkage/'
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  Splink: Fast, accurate and scalable record linkage
date: 2022-09-23T15:59:43Z
published: true
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Awesome to see a powerful, high-performance data science tool released as open source, by a government team no less. Splink, developed based on advice from three academic experts on data linkage, allows for partial weighted record matching—fuzzy matching across multiple variables, that is, with different weight given to each. This has come at a fortuitous time, looking forward to using this.
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