names_comparator

v1.0.0

Simple tool to compare almost similar names which are coming from the same source (for example list of all company owners and officers of that company). Helps to cluster together persons with a slight difference in name spelling/typos. Better suited for Cyrillic names, but should work everywhere For more information about how to use this package see README

Latest version published 5 years ago

License: MIT

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popularity
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maintenance
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community
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Popularity

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GitHub Stars: 5
Forks: 0
Contributors: 1

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Release Date: Sep 27, 2019
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License

MIT

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Maintenance

Inactive

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Open Issues: 1
Open PR: 0
Last Release: 5 years ago
Last Commit: 5 years ago

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Contributors: 1
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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: ==3.3.*, ==3.4.*, ==3.5.*, ==3.6.*

Age: 5 years
Latest Release: 5 years ago
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Readme

comparator

Simple tool to compare almost similar names which are coming from the same source (for example list of all company owners and officers of that company). Helps to cluster together persons with a slight difference in name spelling/typos. Better suited for Cyrillic names, but should work everywhere.

It's heuristic based and as any algorithm of such a nature it make errors sometime (see Accuracy section below for details).

Installation

Install from PyPI.

$ pip install names_comparator

Accuracy

You can test your installation on a ground truth data and check confusion matrix by running:

$ python comparator/__init__.py comparator/data/ground_truth.csv
+--------------------+----------+----------+
|                    | Positive | Negative |
+--------------------+----------+----------+
| Predicted positive |   290    |    9     |
| Predicted negative |    14    |   687    |
+--------------------+----------+----------+
Precision:  0.97
Recall:  0.95
F1 score:  0.96

You can also run it with debug flag to see all the errors algorithm made:

$ python comparator/__init__.py comparator/data/ground_truth.csv yes

Usage

>>> from comparator import full_compare
>>> full_compare("Barack Hussein Obama", "Obama, Barak")
True
>>> full_compare("Петро Мазепа", "Мазепа Петро")
True
>>> full_compare("Марченко Петро Миколайович", "Панченко Петро Миколайович")
False
>>> full_compare("Овдієнко Сергій Костантинович", "Овдієнко Сергій Костянтинович")
True
>>> full_compare("Іванов Михайло Юрійович", "Іванов Юрій Михайлович")
False

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What is names_comparator?

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Is names_comparator popular?

The python package names_comparator receives a total of 9 weekly downloads. As such, names_comparator popularity was classified as limited. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is names_comparator well maintained?

We found indications that names_comparator is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is names_comparator safe to use?

The python package names_comparator was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 9 November-2024, at 01:00 (UTC).

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