Useful Links

A curated collection of helpful resources and tools
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Tutorials and books

Guides and tutorials for various topics in data linkage

Robin Linacre's Blog

A fantastic blog on many different aspects of record linkage

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Linking Sensitive Data

Comprehensive book covering privacy-preserving record linkage

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Software and tools

Software development tools and libraries for data linkage

Splink

Python package for fast, accurate and scalable probabilistic data linkage

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FastLink

Fast Probabilistic Record Linkage in R

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RecordLinkage

Powerful and modular Python record linkage toolkit

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Blocking and candidate edge proposal

Resources for blocking and edge prediction

BlockingPy

Efficient blocking methods using Approximate Nearest Neighbor

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Quality insights and metrics

Quality review and performance frameworks

ER-Evaluation

Framework for evaluation of entity resolution via summary statistics, metrics, and visualizations

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