Finding out duplicate entries in a list and analyzing or fixing them is one of the most common requirements in data analysis or cleansing. In this article we will look at how hash tables can be used to quickly get the list of all elements which are repeated more than once in a list.
In the code example below, find_duplicates function takes in a list of numbers as an input and returns list of all numbers which are repeated more than once (duplicates).
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