Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gad Peleg

Efim Hudis

Yuri Gurevich

Elad Ziklik

Yaron Zinar

Yifat Orlin

Gal Novik

Neta Haiby

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for selecting candidate records for deduplication from a table. A table can be processed to compute an inverse index for each field of the table. A deduplication algorithm can traverse the inverse indices in accordance with a flexible user-defined policy to identify candidate records for deduplication. Both exact matches and approximate matches can be found.

Selecting candidate rows for deduplication

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for exploring and selecting data cleansing service providers. Embodiments of the invention permit a user to explore different data cleansing service providers and compare quality results from the different data cleansing service providers. Sample data is mapped to a specified data domain. A list of service providers, for cleansing data for the selected data domain, is provided to a user. The user selects a subset of service providers. The sample data is submitted to the subset of service providers, which return results including allegedly cleansed data. The results are profiled and a comparison of the subset of service providers is presented to the user. The user selects a service provider to use when cleansing further data.

Comparing and selecting data cleansing service providers

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