danthedeckie / fuzzy-name-lists-matcher

A small utility for helping to do a fuzzy-search to find names from one list in another

Fuzzy list of names matcher

Live Demo: https://danthedeckie.github.io/Fuzzy-name-lists-matcher/

This is a tool that takes 2 lists of names and attempts to find the most likely matches between them.

For instance, given the lists:

List one	List Two
Alice Anderson	Andy Anderson
Bob Barker	Alice Also
Charlie Cho	Bob Barker
Dave Darcy	C. Cho
Ekon Eze	Elon Everton

it should be able to find you a list in order of most likely matches:

Bob Barker -> Bob Barker (Exact)
Charlie Cho -> C. Cho (High)
Alice Anderson -> {Andy Anderson / Alice Also} (Medium)
Ekon Eze -> Elon Everton (Low)

it's not 100% foolproof, and is attempting to match optimistically.

An example expected use-case if you have a list of 3000 school alumni, and want to try and find which of them are now in your current school parents list.

This tool will not give you 100% correct results - but will reduce the space you have to search through - instead of trying to manually compare 3000 against 500 (1.5 million comparisons...) you can now just manually look through the top 100 with their most likely matches.

Finding incorrect positive match scores is fine, as long as it doesn't introduce too much noise.

Authors

fuzzy list of names matcher was created by Daniel Fairhead sponsored by The Churchhill Fellowship and welcomes contributions.

Licence

GNU General Public Licence v3.0 or later

See COPYING to see the full text.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.