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Efficient MinHashing

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PyMinHash

MinHashing is a very efficient way of finding similar records in a dataset based on Jaccard similarity. PyMinHash implements efficient minhashing for Pandas dataframes. See instructions below or look at the example notebook to get started.

Developed by Frits Hermans

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Documentation can be found here

Installation

Normal installation

Install directly from PyPi:

pip install pyminhash

Install to contribute

Clone this Github repo and install in editable mode:

python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
python setup.py develop

Usage

Apply record matching to your Pandas dataframe df as follows:

myHasher = MinHash(n_hash_tables=10)
myHasher.fit_predict(df, 'name')

This will return the row pairs from df that have non-zero Jaccard similarity.

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