Now, how do I go about doing this?
Honestly, I am so lazy it’s not even funny. If there is any free API or library that can do this… PLEASE TELL ME.
Top of the list to try out is csvlink: https://github.com/dedupeio/csvdedupe
I might try out https://www.rosette.com/capability/name-matching/ but I think it will start costing money soon!
Otherwise… #manualit
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6400416/figure-out-if-a-business-name-is-very-similar-to-another-one-python
I guess https://github.com/psolin/cleanco helps?
https://spacy.io/usage/vectors-similarity?
https://github.com/rliebz/whoswho???
(p.s. - not quite mentioning the typical levenshtein since everyone’s talking about it already)
Also, lazy me will try it out first before searching for more stuff LOL
random - another interesting problem relating to names: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39680624/matching-company-names-in-the-news-data-using-python