Robin Linacre

@RobinLinacre

Lead developer of Splink. Data scientist at Ministry of Justice. Trustee, GiveDirectly UK. Pledgee, givingwhatwecan.org. All views my own.

United Kingdom

Joined January 2013

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Robin Linacre
@RobinLinacre
Jul 24, 2024
Pleased to announce the release of Splink version 4.0.0 today. It's now: 👩‍🔬 Easier to use 🚀 Faster ⚡ More scalable 🛠️ Easier to improve For the uninitiated, Splink is a free library for record linkage and deduplication at scale See 🧵 for links and more 1/3
Robin Linacre
@RobinLinacre
Jul 17
You can now automatically turn your Splink model settings.json into a live in-browser linkage model. Simply drag in your .json and get an interactive webapp robinlinacre.com/splink_setting…
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Robin Linacre
@RobinLinacre
Jul 7
The Splink and uk_address_matcher team will be at #IPDLN2026 next week. If you're a user or merely Splinkerested, please get in touch, we'd love to find some time to talk to you. Also we'd would love to meet anyone we've worked with over the years - give me a shout.
Robin Linacre
@RobinLinacre
Jul 1
We've released a new dev (beta) version of Splink 5 today which you can install using pip install splink==5.0.0.dev4. This is very close to the final code we expect to release in Splink 5 (expected in September), so please do give it a try and let us know if you find any issues
Robin Linacre
@RobinLinacre
Jun 9
Arithmetic annihilation - a tower defence game for primary school kids to learn maths. (Same as vocab annihilation but with maths) Works on mobile and desktop. rupertlinacre.com/arithmetic_ann… For best experience on mobile, install as an app ('add to home screen' from Chrome)