How to Do Fuzzy String Matching in Pandas Dataframes
Matching text where there’s no perfect match
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6 min readApr 17, 2023
The real world is not perfect.
People use different forms of the same piece of information. Even well-established systems use different standards. You’d have seen city names misspelled, like “Santana” instead of “Santa Ana” or “St. Louie” instead of “St. Louis.”
