Once I came up with the queuing, the proper needle, the "wafer," duplicate copies of records, the mixer, which I had to rebuild, I was able to take a 10 second drumbeat and make it seamlessly 10 minutes.
Duplicates consists of records retrieved in two or more databases.
If any duplicates are found, then it will display each record that is a duplicate of another record.
First, the Smith-Waterman algorithm is used to recognize pairs of approximate duplicates, then the union-find algorithm to keep track of clusters of duplicate records incrementally, as pairwise duplicate relationships are discovered.
Because each of these homegrown systems was standalone, sales reps had to enter customer data and product specifications into each of them manually a painstaking exercise, resulting in tens of thousands of duplicate records.
Other records and artifacts are stored in suburban Maryland, regional offices around the country and in secret vaults that hold, among other items, duplicates of digital records that may, or may not, prove more vulnerable than paper.
The addition of Library of Congress URIs, and the eventual removal of duplicate records will greatly enhance the functionality of the PUI, and will remove duplicative or incorrect values that may confuse users.
After the initial computer search, manual crosschecking of reference lists, and elimination of duplicate records, 51 unique records were identified.
We experienced an exhaustive process of manual searching and deleting of duplicate records to address this issue.
After correction of geocoded addresses and removal of duplicate records, businesses likely to be defunct, and records likely to represent back offices and corporate offices, the data set included 29,976 businesses, of which 29,858 fell within the bounds of study subjects' neighborhoods.
A total of 3536 papers were retrieved after removal of duplicates from records identified through the Medline search and other sources.
