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Fuzzy Matching using Fuzzywuzzy

1/26/2019

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Have you ever wanted to determine just how similar two strings are? Using the equal sign returns whether two strings are the same or not. It does not give any information or measure regarding how similar or dissimilar two strings are.
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Python’s Fuzzywuzzy library contains many methods that can be used to compute a similarity measure for two strings. The Fuzzywuzzy library contains a module called fuzz that contains several methods that can be used to compare two strings and return a value from 0 to 100 as a measure of similarity.
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    My name is Vanessa Afolabi also known as @TheSASMom. I am a Data Scientist fluent in SAS, R, Python and SQL with a passion for Machine Learning and Research.

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