Avoiding Entity Key Drift in a Data Lake: Step 2, When Fuzzy Matching Stops Working
Helps practitioners working with messy data pipelines understand when common matching techniques break down and what to do instead.
AI Summary
When fuzzy matching algorithms like Damerau-Levenshtein fail to distinguish typos from legitimately similar product identifiers, requiring alternative approaches for entity reconciliation.
Excerpt
I built a matcher meant to finish the cleanup that normalization left behind. Testing it against real data showed that no version of it could be made safe. What follows is the architecture that was left once the matcher was set aside. The post Avoiding Entity Key Drift in a Data Lake: Step 2, When Fuzzy Matching Stops Working appeared first on Towards Data Science.
