What's in a Name? Fuzzy Matching Techniques for Proper Nouns
PyCon AU 2025
Python
Data
NLP
About This Talk
Names are messy in customer databases, research data and government records. Typos, nicknames, transliterations and cultural variations all make exact matching fail.
This talk covers practical techniques for fuzzy matching names and proper nouns in Python, including string distance metrics and methods that account for common variations in personal names.