1. Reconciling ourselves to
what's out there: how one
dataset talks to another
Tony Hirst
Dept of Computing and Communications,
The Open University UK

2. I play with
other people’s
data….

11. Clustering and
Approximate
Matching

12. OpenRefine.org

15. Metaphone3 (soundalike)

16. metaphone( 'Epic Garments Limited’)
EPKKRMNTSLMTT
metaphone( 'EPOCH GARMENTS
LTD’)
EPXKRMNTSLTT

17. Levenshtein (edit distance)

18. You know computers can do this anyway…

19. ..it’s just that no-one’s
told you how you can
do it on your computer
with your data…

20. Reconcile
your data
http://bit.ly/ScoDa-bg-reconcile
http://schoolofdata.org/2013/10/18/in-support-of-the-bangladeshi-garmentindustries-data-expedition/

21. opencorporates.com

22. http://opencorporates.com/reconcile

26. cell.recon.match.name

27. cell.recon.match.id

28. In this way, we
can make our
data linkable…

29. Reconcile your
data with what’s
out there

30. And why not
have a go at
clustering too…?

31. Can you
match your
data to itself?

32. blog.ouseful.info
@psychemedia