{"id":3364,"date":"2018-01-22T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2018-01-22T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:33:11","slug":"modifying-my-script-to-add-a-levenshtein-distance-column-to-my-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2018\/01\/22\/modifying-my-script-to-add-a-levenshtein-distance-column-to-my-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Modifying My Script to Add a Levenshtein Distance Column to My Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I add another data column to my table, which is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levenshtein_distance\"> Levenshtein distance<\/a> between the redirecting source and destination URLs. This turns out to take much longer than I expected to compute, so I try using <tt>parfor<\/tt> to speed it up.<\/p>\n<p>Features covered in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tables<\/li>\n<li><tt>parfor<\/tt><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"5713716443001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2018\/01\/22\/modifying-my-script-to-add-a-levenshtein-distance-column-to-my-table\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/e3d25cf1-1268-4da6-b6db-beb885d50aeb\/317add1d-c5a1-4c36-8009-ee2524d752ed\/640x360\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">30:55<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here I add another data column to my table, which is the  Levenshtein distance between the redirecting source and destination URLs. This turns out to take much longer than I expected to compute, so I&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2018\/01\/22\/modifying-my-script-to-add-a-levenshtein-distance-column-to-my-table\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}