On 17 Apr 2010, at 09:24, Paul Waring wrote: > Matt Robinson wrote: >> Thought that some of you might be interested in >> http://directors.mapofpower.com/ > > How does it know if two people are the same? You could go on name plus date > of birth (assuming people have entered their name exactly the same each time) > but that's all I can think of. Address is less reliable than it used to be, > now that directors can put the company's registered office as their service > address.
Companies House try to join people records by their details and give them the same person id - they don't say in their spec doc for this dataset how they do that, but I suspect they err on the side of caution by requiring several details to match. There's a few records that have the same name and DoB, but no postcode, and they've been left separate. I didn't feel confident enough about going further with an automated process. -- Matt _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
