Database reduction based on geographically clustered data to provide record selection for clinical trials

A method comprising:

• identifying, by a processing device, data sources for geographically clustered data containing corresponding descriptors for unique clinical trial investigators across different sources of information for database records to be written to a data store;
• formatting, by the processing device, the corresponding descriptors to produce standardized, corresponding descriptors;
• matching, by the processing device, each standardized, corresponding descriptor of the standardized corresponding descriptors to produce a record score for each standardized, corresponding descriptor;
• producing, by the processing device, for each standardized corresponding descriptor, a modified score using the record score and a number of characters in at least one of the corresponding descriptors;
• combining, by the processing device, the modified scores for the standardized, corresponding descriptors to produce a binary overall score for each database record of the database records;
• and
• selectively, by the processing device, writing each database record to the data store based on the binary overall score to compile a deduplicated database of the unique clinical trial investigators.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program code executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• identifying data sources for geographically clustered data containing corresponding descriptors for unique clinical trial investigators across different sources of information for database records to be written to a data store;
• formatting the corresponding descriptors to produce standardized, corresponding descriptors;
• matching each standardized, corresponding descriptor of the standardized corresponding descriptors to produce a record score for each standardized, corresponding descriptor;
• producing, for each standardized corresponding descriptor, a modified score using the record score and a number of characters in at least one of the corresponding descriptors;
• combining the modified scores for the standardized, corresponding descriptors to produce a binary overall score for each database record of the database records;
• and
• selectively writing each database record to the data store based on the binary overall score to compile a deduplicated database of the unique clinical trial investigators.