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Ask HN: How can I use AI/something to categorise bank transactions

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Ask HN: How can I use AI/something to categorise bank transactions

#1
I have written / am writing my own budget app. Mostly cos the idea of sending some random company my bank login details just to get back a pie chart seems insane.

Anyway, I am using regexs and globbing to match transactions - but it seems there are bigger/better ideas - but I don't really know what area of AI might help?

The only way I can imagine getting a corpus larger than my own transactions is to have some communal data dump.

Re: Ask HN: How can I use AI/something to categorise bank transactions

#3
GNU Cash uses a naive bayes classifier with surprising good results. You may want to look at their implementation for something similar.

Could someone tell if there are betters? I guess it must be a big topic for all online accounting software but I haven't seen something good yet.