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At the end of 2016, the French President launched a new program largely inspired by Barack Obama's Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF).
This program was called Entrepreneur d'Intérêt Général and the first session took place from January 2017 to October 2017.
Martin was picked for one of the challenge inside French Ministry of Interior, under the supervision of Daniel ANSELLEM and Fabien ANTOINE. That is there that Fabien and Martin met and decided to launch matchID as an open-source project.
The challenge consisted in suppressing all the deaths from French Driving Licenses database.
Basic SQL allowed 70+ % of matching between deaths' database and drivers' database.
But to reach higher levels of matching (recall and precision), we needed better data cleansing, fuzzy matching and matching learning.
Our first attempts to get high results were successful thanks to Data Science Studio from the company Dataiku.
But, as we were talking about our solution to match people's identities inside the French administration, many people asked if they could use it on their own datasets. For many administrations, licenced software are strictly controled.
So we decided to rewrite our project totally and to create an universal solution for matching people's identities. You get it now, it's matchID.
A project cannot easily live inside an administration without being open-sourced.
So we open-sourced it. No risk of divulging secret defense stuff and so, you will not have all of our recipes - only the best algorithms.