4 Ways to Choose a Fuzzy Match Algorithm

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[00:00:00]Why does no one talk about this? Fuzzy matching algorithms. Which should I use?

[00:00:04]First, Levenshtein distance. Use this algorithm when you have a small variation. Number two, Jaro-Winkler distance. It works the same way, but it assigns the high weights to the characters that match in the beginning and catches the typos in the end. Number three, trigrams and n-grams. This algorithm breaks the strings into subgroups and thus it is so fast. It might be the best solution when you're working with a large data set. Number four, Soundex and phonetic methods. This method encodes words based on pronunciation. It is simple and fast, but it is limited to English like names and short quotes.