Splink now offers support for Python and AWS Athena backends, in addition to Spark. It’s now easier to use, faster and more flexible, and can be used for close to real time linkage. — Two years ago, we introduced Splink, a Python library for data deduplication and linkage (entity resolution) at scale. Since then, Splink has been used in government, the private sector, and academia to link and deduplicate huge datasets, some in excess of 100 million records, and it’s been downloaded over 3…