A simple interface to datamade/dedupe to make probabilistic record linkage easy.
Project description
SuperDeduper
A work-in-progress to provide a standard interface for deduplication of large databases with custom pre-processing and post-processing steps.
Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://superdeduper.readthedocs.io.
Interface
This provides a simple command-line script, superdeduper.py. Two configuration files specify the configuration parameters and database connection settings. To run deduplication on a generated dataset, create a database.yml file that specifies the following parameters:
user: password: database: host: port:
You can now create a sample CSV file with:
$ python generate_fake_dataset.py creating people: 100%|█████████████████████| 9500/9500 [00:21<00:00, 445.38it/s] adding twins: 100%|█████████████████████████| 500/500 [00:00<00:00, 1854.72it/s] writing csv: 47%|███████████▋ | 4666/10000 [00:42<00:55, 96.28it/s]
Once complete, store this example dataset in a database with:
$ python test/initialize_db.py CREATE SCHEMA DROP TABLE CREATE TABLE COPY 197617 ALTER TABLE ALTER TABLE UPDATE 197617
Now you can deduplicate this dataset. This will run dedupe as well as the custom pre-processing and post-processing steps:
$ python deduper.py --config config.yml --db database.yml
Custom pre- and post-processing
In addition to running a database-level deduplication with dedupe, this script adds custom pre- and post-processing steps to improve the run-time and results, making this a hybrid between fuzzy matching and record linkage.
Pre-processing: Before running dedupe, this script does an exact-match deduplication. Some systems create many identical rows; this can make it challenging for dedupe to create an effective blocking strategy and generally makes the fuzzy matching much harder and time intensive.
Post-processing: After running dedupe, this script does an optional exact-match merge across subsets of columns. For example, in some instances an exact match of just the last name and social security number are sufficient evidence that two clusters are indeed the same identity.
Further steps
This script was based upon and extended from the example in dedupe-examples. It would be nice to use this common interface across all database types, and potentially even allow reading from flat CSV files.
History
0.1.0 (2016-12-14)
First release on PyPI.
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