Entity Resolution in Data Analytics
By James Maguire, Editor-in-Chief of eWeek, published October 25, 2022
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“Context is better understanding something by taking into account the things around it. If you want to understand your data, you want to understand the pieces around it and the first form of context is entity resolution. If you think it’s three people each with a transaction but it’s really one person, you got the wrong context. You can’t make good predictions.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world – people that know they have entity resolution problems and know that if they fixed it, it would fix a lot of things… and then there’s everybody else.”
