[Dedupe-news] Project Dedupe Newsletter #2

[Lee T. <lti...@gm...>]

Good aftertoon!

Again, thanks for your continued support, welcome to Project Dedupe's 2nd
edition! Let's see if I can stick to the template...

What's been going on since the last Newsletter;
A little research on Microsoft's attempt at fuzzy grouping in SQL Server
2005 - http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Existing_software
A draft visual basic module is available on Subversion for cleaning up
contact numbers (phone, fax etc) -
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/dedupe/vb_source
Work has begun on a method of dealing with data in visual basic (reading
input files, working with those files and then writing output files)
Work has begun on extracting the country from "dirty data" in visual basic

What's next;
Hopefully v0.1 of the file in/out function for visual basic will be posted
to Subversion
Hopefully v0.1 of the country extraction function for visual basic will be
posted to Subversion
If you haven't already, please register on the wiki and write a few lines
about yourself (if you could include where you're from (hopefully having
members from different countries will enable us to develop a smarter
application), what interests you about this project and what you may be able
to contribute) on your user page (
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php?title=User:username&action=editreplacing
username with your usersname)

Some stats;
There are still only 4 users registered on the wiki (including me!) and 3
users registered as developers on sourceforge (again, including me!)
The main page has seen over 1,600 hits since launch (seems like a lot of
people are hitting the site, possibly even bookmarking it, but aren't yet
drawn in enough to register/contribute)
The most recently edited pages are;
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Existing_software
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Data_I/O
http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Programming_languages
<http://tickett.net/dedupe/index.php/Talk:Match_Levels>
This, and all previously archieved newsletters can be viewed at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=48618

Thanks

Lee (ltickett)

Project Dedupe
http://dedupe.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dedupe