Python Record Linkage Toolkit Documentation

All you need to start linking records.

First steps

• About
  • Introduction
  • What is record linkage?
  • How to link records?
• Installation guide
  • Python version support
  • Installation
  • Dependencies
• Link two datasets
  • Introduction
  • Make record pairs
  • Compare records
  • Full code
• Data deduplication
  • Introduction
  • Make record pairs
  • Compare records
  • Full code

Record linkage

• 0. Preprocessing
  • Cleaning
  • Phonetic encoding
• 1. Indexing
  • recordlinkage.Index object
  • Algorithms
  • User-defined algorithms
  • Examples
• 2. Comparing
  • recordlinkage.Compare object
  • Algorithms
  • User-defined algorithms
  • Examples
• 3. Classification
  • Classifiers
  • Adapters
  • User-defined algorithms
  • Examples
  • Network
• 4. Evaluation
• Datasets
• Miscellaneous

Advanced

• Classification algorithms
  • Supervised learning
  • Unsupervised learning
• Performance
  • Indexing
  • Comparing

Developers

• Contributing
• Release notes