entity_resolution

In one of my previous post I talked about entity resolution and how data science plays a role. I am a big fan of OpenSanctions, and their process (entirely open) is a beautiful example of Entity resolution. OpenSanctions is an international database of persons and companies of political, criminal, or economic interest. It’s a combination of sanction lists, publicly available databases, and criminal information. Companies can use this information to check their customers, to prevent money laundering and sanction evasion. [Read More]

I have a problem. Others have it too, it is a problem of duplication. I’m trying to track the books I read in Bookwyrm so I can talk about it online. But there are so many duplicates! How do we know if Soren Kierkegaard,Søren Kierkegaard, and Sören Kierkegaard are the same person? This is an example of entity resolution1. It is also called deduplication, record linkage and data matching 2. We want to compare entities from different datasets and make a confident claim that they match or not. [Read More]