Anonymize/Mask the Person's Name from the comment field

[harinder1301]

Hi ,

I would like to mask or anonymize the person's name in comment text field. for eg : Lee is good person should be mask to abc is good person etc.

is there any way to do this in Alteryx?

Thanks

Hsac

[ddiesel · Accepted solution]

Ah, I see. Since you do not have a list of expected names, you will need an NLP tool. I suggest that you look into Named Entry Recognition that is part of the Alteryx Intelligence Suite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se-wnjfP2UY

https://www.alteryx.com/products/intelligence-suite

https://help.alteryx.com/20221/designer/alteryx-intelligence-suite

https://help.alteryx.com/20221/designer/named-entity-recognition

Let us know if this is what you're looking for.

Thanks,
Deb

[Robin_McIntosh]

Doesn't look pretty but took a stab at it here.  Assuming that all the names would start with a capital letter, I used RegEx to extract possible names.  Only issue is if there is a word other than a name capitalized (but I did exclude singles like I and A).  You would then just need to update this list to remove non-names.  Only other thing is that all anonymizing is done with xyz so there would be no distinct replacement per name.

[harinder1301]

Thanks Robin, Please can you share the yxmd file. 

Regards

[Robin_McIntosh · Accepted solution]

Here's the yxmd workflow.

[harinder1301]

Many Thanks Robin and Deb,

Both solutions worked for us but we have chosen NLP as it worked better with our data.

Thanks

Hsac