Customer Centricity and Connections: Establishing the Link

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By David Loshin

In my last post, we began to look at the value proposition for grouping individual customers into logical groupings. We began by looking at a grouping that generally appears naturally, namely the traditional residential household.

We talked about householding in a previous blog posting, but it is worth
reviewing the basic approaches used for determining that a group of individuals
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Normalizing Structure Using Data Standardization for Improved Matching

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By David Loshin

In my last few posts, I discussed how structural
differences impact the ability to search and match records across different
data sets. Fortunately, most data quality tool suites use integrated parsing
and standardization algorithms to map structures together.
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Entities and their Characteristics

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By David Loshin

How can you tell if two records refer to the same person (or company, or other type of organization)? In our recent posts, we have looked at how data quality techniques such as parsing and standardization help in normalizing the data values within different records so that the records can be compared.
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