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Machine Learning

Can Crawled Web Data Tell the Future?

Robert Tercek’s book Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World recently recently won GetAbastract’s 2016 International Book of the Year award at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Based in Hollywood, Robert has...

Machine Learning

Web Data Visualization of The Hillary Clinton Top 100 Network Graph

The web data business can get pretty tricky, especially when your job is to extract the broadest possible dataset from the planet’s biggest database. Last week, Webz.io CEO Ran Geva ran a...

Web Data

Should you buy crawled web data or build your own solution?

In a technologically driven environment, the temptation to develop a proprietary web crawling solution is virtually irresistible. Our latest report examines the true cost of computing and software development resources required to deliver a data...

Machine Learning

Top 10 Big Data Stories Leading the Conversation

In the right hands, crawled web data can tell an amazing story. We were interested in the top 10 news stories – sorted by social shares on Facebook and LinkedIn. So we set up a...

Web Data

The Race to Achieve 100% Coverage of the Web

In our new report, we deconstruct the all-too-familiar race to achieve 100% coverage of the web. Data acquisition efforts usually rely on one of three approaches – build an internal web crawling...

News API

Guide to Structured Web Data Consumption: How to get instant access to news, blogs, and online discussions

The full guide to structured web data consumption

Web Data

5 Ways to Measure the Impact of Crawled Web Data on Your Business

The analysis you provide is only as good as the raw data you start with. Although data from the open web is often perceived as a commodity, not all crawled data is...

Machine Learning

How to Keep Your Restaurant Sentiment Analysis Well-Fed

When the team from London-based data analysis service GetSentiment developed a bleeding-edge system to measure the emotional baggage found in free text, they were missing just one thing: relevant data. “We were...

Machine Learning

Why Extracting Content From The Open Web Is Better than Surveys for Research

What’s the best way to find out how people feel about a given topic? Simply ask them, right? Well, at least that’s what we’ve been led to believe. Standard polling practice tells...