We use the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance for fuzzy matching in our data prep tool. Here is a post about how it works: http://blog.easymorph.com/2017/08/fuzz

We use the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance for fuzzy matching in our data prep tool. Here is a post about how it works: http://blog.easymorph.com/2017/08/fuzzy-matching-and-merging.html http://blog.easymorph.com/2017/08/fuzzy-matching-and-merging... Damerau-Levenshtein [1] is more practical then just Levenshtein as it includes transposition - a common cause of typos. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_di...