Unstructured Data Analysis

Table of contents

1. About This Book
2. Acknowledgments
3. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Regular Expressions
   1. 1.1 Introduction
   2. 1.2 Special Characters
   3. 1.3 Basic Metacharacters
   4. 1.4 Character Classes
   5. 1.5 Modifiers
   6. 1.6 Options
   7. 1.7 Zero-width Metacharacters
   8. 1.8 Summary
4. Chapter 2: Using Regular Expressions in SAS
   1. 2.1 Introduction
   2. 2.2 Built-in SAS Functions
   3. 2.3 Built-in SAS Call Routines
   4. 2.4 Applications of RegEx
   5. 2.5 Summary
5. Chapter 3: Entity Resolution Analytics
   1. 3.1 Introduction
   2. 3.2 Defining Entity Resolution
   3. 3.3 Methodology Overview
   4. 3.4 Business Level Decisions
   5. 3.4 Summary
6. Chapter 4: Entity Extraction
   1. 4.1 Introduction
   2. 4.2 Business Context
   3. 4.3 Scraping Text Data
   4. 4.4 Basic Entity Extraction Patterns
   5. 4.5 Putting Them Together
   6. 4.6 Summary
7. Chapter 5: Extract, Transform, Load
   1. 5.1 Introduction
   2. 5.2 Examining Data
   3. 5.3 Encoding Translation
   4. 5.4 Conversion
   5. 5.5 Standardization
   6. 5.6 Binning
   7. 5.7 Summary
8. Chapter 6: Entity Resolution
   1. 6.1 Introduction
   2. 6.2 Indexing
   3. 6.3 Matching
   4. 6.4 Summary
9. Chapter 7: Entity Network Mapping and Analysis
   1. 7.1 Introduction
   2. 7.2 Entity Network Mapping
   3. 7.3 Entity Network Analysis
   4. 7.4 Summary
10. Chapter 8: Entity Management
    1. 8.1 Introduction
    2. 8.2 Creating New Records
    3. 8.3 Editing Existing Records
    4. 8.4 Summary
11. Appendix A: Additional Resources
    1. A.1 Perl Version Notes
    2. A.2 ASCII Code Lookup Tables
    3. A.3 POSIX Metacharacters
    4. A.4 Random PII Generation