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Normalizing 176K Recalls from 7 Government Feeds into One Queryable Corpus

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer normalized 176,000 product recalls from seven government sources into a single corpus. The main challenge wasn't schema differences but reconciling conflicting definitions of what constitutes a recall. Identifiers like barcodes often hide in free-text fields, requiring regex and check-digit validation to avoid false negatives.

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The piece highlights a classic data-engineering headache: standardizing public data is less about tech and more about domain semantics, a lesson for any startup building compliance tools.
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