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# set up all the data for the rest of the notebook
import json
from collections import Counter
from itertools import chain

with open('shreddit_q2_votes.json', 'r') as fh:
    ballots = json.load(fh)


    

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def change_name(fuzzy, to):
    for ballot in ballots:
        for idx, vote in enumerate(ballot):
            if vote.startswith(fuzzy):
                ballot[idx] = to.lower()

fuzzies = {'Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror',
 'Caedes Cruenta - Ερείπια ψυχών',
 'Chapel of Disease - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art',
 'Cloud Rat - Qliphoth',
 'Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden',
 'Death Karma - The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part 1 ',
 'Deathhammer - Evil Power',
 'Desolate Shrine - Heart of the Netherworld',
 'Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short',
 'Ethereal Shroud - They Became Falling Ash',
 'Ghost Bath - Moonlover',
 'Gruesome - Savage Land',
 'Hic Iacet - The Cosmic Trance into Void',
 'Lord Dying - Poised Altars',
 'Melechesh - Enki',
 'Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu',
 'Monolord - Vænir',
 'Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs',
 'Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere',
 'Tribulation - Children of the Night',
 'Visigoth - The Revenant King',
 'Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth'}

for name in fuzzies:
    change_name(name.lower()[:5], name)


    

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fuzzies = {'ithaqua': 'ithaqua - initiation to obscure mysteries',
           'dodh': 'dødheimsgard - a umbra omega',
           'mispyrming': 'misþyrming - söngvar elds og óreiðu',
           'ufomammut': 'ufomammut - ecate',
           'forest of stars': 'a forest of stars - a beware the sword you cannot see',
           'shining': 'shining ix - everyone, everything, everywhere, ends',
           'genocide shrines': 'genocide shrines - Manipura Imperial Deathevokovil: Scriptures of Reversed Puraana Dharmurder'.lower(),
           'sigh -': 'sigh - graveward',
           'misblerbling - songvar yadda yadda': 'misþyrming - söngvar elds og óreiðu',
           'a sulphur aeon': 'sulphur aeon - gateway to the antisphere'}

for fuzzy, replace in fuzzies.items():
    change_name(fuzzy, replace)


    

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with open('shreddit_q2_votes.json', 'w') as fh:
    json.dump(ballots, fh)