MaartenGr/PolyFuzz

Fuzzy string matching, grouping, and evaluation.

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PolyFuzz helps you clean up messy text data by finding and grouping similar words or phrases, even if they're spelled slightly differently. You give it lists of text, and it identifies potential matches and clusters them, so you can standardize inconsistent entries like 'apple' and 'apples'. This tool is for anyone managing large text datasets who needs to ensure consistency and accuracy, such as data analysts, researchers, or marketers.

792 stars. Used by 2 other packages. No commits in the last 6 months. Available on PyPI.

Use this if you need to quickly find and group variations of text entries in your data, like product names, customer feedback, or scientific terms, to improve data quality and consistency.

Not ideal if your primary goal is exact string matching or if you need to process massive datasets in real-time without prior model fitting.

data-cleaning text-standardization record-linkage data-quality text-mining
Stale 6m
Maintenance 2 / 25
Adoption 12 / 25
Maturity 25 / 25
Community 17 / 25

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792

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Language

Python

License

MIT

Last pushed

Jul 10, 2025

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