How detect duplicate card records?
Company: Two Sigma
Role: Data Scientist
Category: Machine Learning
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
You are given a dataset of credit card transaction records and suspect that some records are duplicates.
Discuss:
- What real-world situations could create duplicate-looking records.
- How you would define a true duplicate, especially when two records are very similar but not exactly identical.
- How you would detect, quantify, and extract duplicate records from the dataset in a robust way.
Your answer should consider both exact duplicates and near-duplicates caused by ingestion issues, retries, formatting differences, or multiple processing stages.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's competency in duplicate detection, record linkage, entity resolution, and data quality assessment within credit card transaction datasets.