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String Mismatch Comparison#
This page provides an overview for using and understanding the “String Mismatch Comparison” check.
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What is the purpose of the check?#
The check compares the same categorical column within train and test and checks whether there are variants of similar strings that exists only in test and not in train. Finding those mismatches is helpful to prevent errors when inferring on the test data. For example, in train data we have category ‘New York’, and in our test data we have ‘new york’. We would like to be acknowledged that the test data contain a new variant of the train data, so we can address the problem.
How String Mismatch Defined?#
To recognize string mismatch, we transform each string to it’s base form. The base form is the string with only its alphanumeric characters in lowercase. (For example “Cat-9?!” base form is “cat9”). If two strings have the same base form, they are considered to be the same.
import pandas as pd
Run the Check#
from deepchecks.tabular.checks import StringMismatchComparison
data = {'col1': ['Deep', 'deep', 'deep!!!', 'earth', 'foo', 'bar', 'foo?']}
compared_data = {'col1': ['Deep', 'deep', '$deeP$', 'earth', 'foo', 'bar', 'foo?', '?deep']}
check = StringMismatchComparison()
result = check.run(pd.DataFrame(data=data), pd.DataFrame(data=compared_data))
result
Define a Condition#
check = StringMismatchComparison().add_condition_no_new_variants()
result = check.run(pd.DataFrame(data=data), pd.DataFrame(data=compared_data))
result.show(show_additional_outputs=False)
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.056 seconds)