Update 2-Working-With-Data/08-data-preparation/notebook.ipynb

Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

2-Working-With-Data/08-data-preparation/notebook.ipynb

@@ -3815,15 +3815,18 @@
       "metadata": {},
       "outputs": [],
       "source": [
-        "# rapidfuzz was already imported in an earlier cell\n",
+        "try:\n",
         "    from rapidfuzz import process, fuzz\n",
-        "\n",
+        "except ImportError:\n",
-        "\n",
+        "    print(\"rapidfuzz is not installed. Please install it with 'pip install rapidfuzz' to use fuzzy matching.\")\n",
+        "    process = None\n",
+        "    fuzz = None\n",
         "\n",
         "# Get unique countries\n",
         "unique_countries = dirty_data['country'].unique()\n",
         "\n",
         "# For each country, find similar matches\n",
+        "if process is not None and fuzz is not None:\n",
         "    print(\"Finding similar country names (similarity > 70%):\")\n",
         "    for country in unique_countries:\n",
         "        matches = process.extract(country, unique_countries, scorer=fuzz.ratio, limit=3)\n",
@@ -3832,7 +3835,9 @@
         "        if similar:\n",
         "            print(f\"\\n'{country}' is similar to:\")\n",
         "            for match, score, _ in similar:\n",
-        "            print(f\"  - '{match}' (similarity: {score}%)\")"
+        "                print(f\"  - '{match}' (similarity: {score}%)\")\n",
+        "else:\n",
+        "    print(\"Skipping fuzzy matching because rapidfuzz is not available.\")"
       ]
     },
     {