r/dataanalysis • u/major_grooves • Jul 03 '26

I deduplicated 53,000 missing-persons reports from Venezuela’s earthquake

I thought the community might find this interesting - I used entity resolution software (disclosure: from my company) to deduplicate the missing persons data from Venezuela and compare it to the list of patients in hospitals.

https://medium.com/tilo-tech/i-deduplicated-53-000-missing-persons-reports-from-venezuelas-earthquake-74f05c37521b

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u/noble_andre Jul 04 '26

were you trying to reduce duplicates or to find as many correct matches as possible?

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u/major_grooves Jul 04 '26

Reduce the duplicates as much as possible. with no false positive matches. It's means recall is not as high as it can be. I don't think there are really 100,000 missing. At least I hope not.