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Exercise

Small distance, small difference

In the video exercise, you learned that there are multiple ways to calculate how similar or different two strings are. Now you'll practice using the stringdist package to compute string distances using various methods. It's important to be familiar with different methods, as some methods work better on certain datasets, while others work better on other datasets.

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  • Calculate the Damerau-Levenshtein distance between "las angelos" and "los angeles".