February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
370 pages
8h 11m
English
Now that we have measured numerical and text distances, we will spend time learning how to combine them to measure distances between observations that have both text and numerical features.
Nearest neighbor is a great algorithm to use for address matching. Address matching is a type of record matching in which we have addresses in multiple datasets and we would like to match them up. In address matching, we may have typos in the address, different cities, or different zip codes, but they may all refer to the same address. Using the nearest neighbor algorithm across the numerical and character components of an address may help us identify addresses that are actually the same.
In this example, we will ...
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