Expertise: Ptyhon, R, machine learning, data science, natural language processing.
Education: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Catherine Gitau is a data science manager for Visa, with experience in natural language processing as well as Python and R programming languages. She has worked in data science since 2017 and has previously served as a NLP engineer for Proto. Gitau holds a master’s in machine intelligence from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Fuzzy string matching is the process of finding strings that approximately match each other. Here’s more on how fuzzy string matching works and how to perform the process using the Python library FuzzyWuzzy.