#fuzzy string match

Various fuzzy string match algorithms & Excellent video review

I’ve been studying up on fuzzy string match after controlling for misspellings, typos, dyslexia etc.  and I found a few articles discussing various approaches like:

Levenstein distance Damerau–Levenshtein distance n-gram Soundex Jaro-Winkler distance Jaccard index

I found this video from two guys which took a process of checking to see if a name was on a terrorist watch lists which originally took 14…