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Building a reusable data matching product

Posted by: Leonardo Mazzone - Senior Data Scientist and Will Langdale, Data Scientist, Posted on: 8 October 2025 - Categories: Products
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The Department for Business and Trade (DBT)’s Data Scientists have built Matchbox, an open-source platform that allows them to deduplicate and link datasets in a way that is measurable, iterative and collaborative.

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