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The Optimization of Fuzzy String Matching Using TF-IDF and Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
How to accelerate the computation time of fuzzy string matching from hours to seconds
When working with real data, the biggest problems are mostly in data pre-processing. It may vary, but matching can be one of the biggest challenges faced by a lot of analysts. For instance, when we are talking about George Washington and G Washington, of course, we are talking about one person, namely the first President of the United States. We are dealing with duplicate data. Luckily, researchers have developed the probabilistic data matching algorithm or well-known as fuzzy matching.
What is fuzzy string matching?
Probabilistic data matching often referred to as fuzzy string matching, is the algorithm to match a pattern between a string with a sequence of strings in the database and give a matching similarity — in percentage. It explicitly indicates that the output must be the probability (in the range 0 to 1 or the percentage of similarity) instead of an exact number.
There are many ways to perform fuzzy string matching, for instance, Levenshtein distance, but it has a problem with the algorithm…
