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    • Why Data Normalization is Still a Huge Challenge for Organizations
    November 16, 2020     

    Why Data Normalization is Still a Huge Challenge for Organizations

    Why does data normalization and preparation remain such a big challenge for enterprise-level organizations, and how to help them.
    Common Crawl vs. Webz
    April 13, 2020     

    Common Crawl vs. Webz

    Web archives are an important resource for both academic and commercial research. Getting access to historical web data is crucial for political events analysis, fake news detection, financial trends correlation and training […]
    Use these 3 Free Datasets to Analyze the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Outbreak
    March 31, 2020     

    Use these 3 Free Datasets to Analyze the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Outbreak

    Perhaps the most powerful tool that health care officials, government advisors, epidemiologists and other researchers have in their arsenal to fight any disease are datasets. These datasets can be used to predict […]
    Beating the Market with Alternative Web Data
    February 24, 2020     

    Beating the Market with Alternative Web Data

    A few years ago the concept of alternative web data hit the qualitative hedge fund market, causing a huge stir. Today the concept of alternative web data has infiltrated all types of […]
    How Web Data Can Help Predict Disease and a Rise in Prices
    November 13, 2019     

    How Web Data Can Help Predict Disease and a Rise in Prices

    Did you know that it can take decades for a Nobel Prize winner of economics to properly test and demonstrate that their hypothesis is worthwhile? This is because traditionally, finding correlations between different events […]
    How Alternative Data is Reshaping Finance
    May 24, 2018     

    How Alternative Data is Reshaping Finance

    According to a report recently featured on the Financial Times (PDF), hedge funds are expected to spend upwards of $600m on digital datasets this year, and up to $1bn by 2020. What’s […]
    3 Predictions for Web Data in 2018
    December 12, 2017     

    3 Predictions for Web Data in 2018

    2017 was a turbulent year: With Donald Trump shaking up the American political system, cryptocurrencies causing riptides throughout financial markets, and advancements in artificial intelligence sparking both anticipation and anxiety in the […]
    Was Black Friday Worth It? The Crawled eCommerce Data Answer
    December 4, 2017     

    Was Black Friday Worth It? The Crawled eCommerce Data Answer

    Now that we’ve had a chance to recover from the Black Friday and Cyber Monday crazes, which chalked up record sales this year, it’s time to ask the inevitable question: was Black […]
    3 Ways to Use eCommerce Product Data for Market Research
    September 14, 2017     

    3 Ways to Use eCommerce Product Data for Market Research

    The web is an invaluable source of data when it comes to competitive intelligence, research and creating a go-to-market strategy. A simple Google search will reveal incredible amounts of public information about […]
    How to Extract Data from Websites: Scraping Tools, DIY or DaaS
    September 7, 2017     

    How to Extract Data from Websites: Scraping Tools, DIY or DaaS

    This is part 2 of our guide to web data extraction. Read part 1 to learn about the questions to ask before you start, or download the complete Web Data Extraction Playbook […]
    Web Data Extraction Guide: 11 Questions to Ask
    August 31, 2017     

    Web Data Extraction Guide: 11 Questions to Ask

    The following is an excerpt from our new Web Data Extraction Playbook. We’ll be publishing the second part next week, or you can grab the full guide here. The internet has become […]
    What is DaaS, BDaaS, DBaaS? And Why Should You Care?
    August 8, 2017     

    What is DaaS, BDaaS, DBaaS? And Why Should You Care?

    The proliferation of data services has created a wide range of confusing buzzwords and acronyms – but at its core, DaaS is still a meaningful concept. We are living in the age […]