Thanks for this, Avinash. Nirmala Ravishankar used a similar approach (Fuzzy data matching) to adjust for names' matching in her article in the EPW on incumbency effects - http://www.epw.in/special-articles/cost-ruling-anti-incumbency-elections.html
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Avinash Celestine < [email protected]> wrote: > Thought i would share this link. It gives the code for a fuzzy match > version of Excel's vlookup function. I've used it for a couple of years > actually, and it works quite well. Extremely useful when trying to match > names, places etc. > > > http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/195635-fuzzy-matching-new-version-plus-explanation.html#post955137 > > Avinash > > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
