Data Wrangling & Record Linkage Resources

Resources

– Home Mortgage Disclosure Act example from class

– John Canny’s slides on Data Cleaning and Integration

– A Theory For Record Linkage by Ivan Fellegi and Alan Sunter

– Detaled discussion of Levenshtein Distance

– Notes on Record Linkage presented in classs

– Useful book: Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools (Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences) by Foster, Ghani et al. On reserve in Regenstein for the quarter. See Chapter #3 on Record Linkage.

– Additional scripts presented in class on Piazza