This data set was created by Paula McLeod, Dick Heasman and Ian Forbes, ONS,
for the ESSnet DI on-the-job training course, Southampton, 25-28 January 2011.
It contains fictional observations from Customer Information System,
which is combined administrative data from the tax and benefit systems.

datasets

The goal of 'blocking' is to provide blocking methods for record linkage and deduplication using approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) algorithms and graph techniques. It supports multiple ANN implementations via 'rnndescent', 'RcppHNSW', 'RcppAnnoy', and 'mlpack' packages, and provides integration with the 'reclin2' package. The package generates shingles from character strings and similarity vectors for record comparison, and includes evaluation metrics for assessing blocking performance including false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR) estimates. For details see: Papadakis et al. (2020) <doi:10.1145/3377455>, Steorts et al. (2014) <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11257-2_20>, Dasylva and Goussanou (2021) <https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/12-001-X202100200002>, Dasylva and Goussanou (2022) <doi:10.1007/s42081-022-00153-3>.

Maciej Ber<c4><99>sewicz

blocking

Various Blocking Methods for Entity Resolution

Maciej Beręsewicz

Adam Struzik

cis function

A <code>data.table</code> with 24613 records. Each row represents one record, with the following columns:<ul>
<li><code>person_id</code> -- a unique number for each person, consisting of postcode, house number and person number,</li>
<li><code>pername1</code> -- forename,</li>
<li><code>pername2</code> -- surname,</li>
<li><code>sex</code> -- gender (M/F),</li>
<li><code>dob_day</code> -- day of birth,</li>
<li><code>dob_mon</code> -- month of birth,</li>
<li><code>dob_year</code> -- year of birth,</li>
<li><code>enumcap</code> -- an address consisting of house number and street name,</li>
<li><code>enumpc</code> -- postcode,</li>
<li><code>cis_id</code> -- person ID with "CIS" added in front.</li>
</ul>

cis: Fictional customer data

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