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Fuzzy matching

Phil_Wainman
5 - Atom
‎10-29-2018 01:54 AM

Hi - new to Alteryx, so apologies for hopefully a simple question.  I have a free type list of company names that I need to clean and standardise.  What would be the best approach. I was thinking of using the Fuzzy Match function?  (List too long to manually correct!)

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BenMoss
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‎10-29-2018 02:46 AM

The fuzzy match tool would definitely be something to investigate, and this blog is a great starting point:

 

https://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/2014/04/02/alteryx-tools-focus-fuzzy-match-make-group-unique/

 

However, sometime's you may want to just apply a standard set of business rules to try and match the values, which you can relay to your end users.

 

Ben

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