Go Hybrid: Find the Results LIKE Can't
This is the companion page for my PyOhio 2026 talk. Everything I demoed is here to take home: the slides, the notebooks, and the dataset. LIKE is the tool most of us reach for first when we search free text. You end up chaining OR and NOT LIKE clauses to patch each miss, and you are still reading every record by hand. The talk works through what to reach for instead, using 448 free-text notes from a fictional dog spa. ...