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BYU Record Linking Lab Census Links

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Joseph Price, Brigham Young University; Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame

Version:  View help for Version V2

Name File Type Size Last Modified
  census 01/28/2021 10:12:AM
  training 01/28/2021 10:13:AM
Figure2_Precision_Recall.ipynb text/plain 18 KB 01/28/2021 05:12:AM
Table4_Comparing_Classifiers.ipynb text/plain 10.4 KB 01/28/2021 05:12:AM
Table5_Feature_Importances.ipynb text/plain 5.2 KB 01/28/2021 05:12:AM

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary These files include data and code used to create tables and figures for "Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records." This was published as an NBER Working Paper (#26227) and is in the review process at an academic journal. We are seeking permission to share our full dataset that we obtained from FamilySearch. We have included the truth set that we use to train our model along with the machine learning code we use to link records using this truth set. Our truth set includes histid pairs between the different census records, which can be combined with the restricted versions of the full-count census records that are distributed through the University of Minnesota.



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V6 [2021-07-12]

V5 [2021-07-09]

V4 [2021-02-10]

V3 [2021-01-28]

V2 [2021-01-28]

V1 [2021-01-27]

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