An Introduction to Entity Resolution in Python

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63 Lessons

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This course includes

1 Project

1 Assessment

192 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

This course includes

1 Project

1 Assessment

192 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

Course Overview

A typical business stores data across multiple systems, including ERPs for operations, a CRM for marketing, files, notebooks, and BI apps for other purposes. Records of the same customer (entity) exist in multiple places, likely not in sync across nor unique within sources. This inconsistent situation generates an opportunity for us to drive business value by cross-referencing and deduplicating records with entity resolution. This course covers business acumen and hands-on coding. It starts with several bu...Show More

What You'll Learn

The ability to deduplicate records using Python

Familiarity with an entity resolution framework and business cases

An understanding of semantic similarity and search

Experience with classification in the context of entity resolution

Hands-on experience in data-centric AI using weak supervision and confident learning

What You'll Learn

The ability to deduplicate records using Python

Course Content

Introduction to Entity Resolution and Applications

About the Course

Deduplication vs. Linkage

Location Resolution: Geocoding Master Data Management Analytics in a Fragmented Data Landscape Direct Impact with Payment Resolution Real-Time Entity Resolution

A Quickstart Guide Using the RecordLinkage Package

Solver’s Kitchen—Installation and Service for Restaurants Effective Text Preprocessing Similarity Features Match vs. No-Match Evaluate the Match Quality Geocoders for Location Resolution Sell with Insights Quiz on Entity Resolution Fundamentals

Preprocessing

Why Preprocessing Is Important Preprocessing Using pandas Removing and Replacing Tokens Phonetic Algorithms Preprocess Locations Using Open Data Categories from Unstructured Texts Quiz on Preprocessing

Indexing

Significance of Indexing Equality-Based Indexing Sort-Based Indexing Combine Indexing Techniques K-Nearest Embeddings Blocking Quiz on Indexing

Feature Engineering

Pairwise Matching

12 Lessons

Clustering

6 Lessons

Integration

8 Lessons

Entity Resolution Fundamentals

Assessment

Matching Products Across Two Online Shops

Project

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Appendix

3 Lessons

Course Author

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