3 Ways to Use eCommerce Product Data for Market Research

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

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

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 […]

5 Great Reasons to Meet Us at Strata

5 Great Reasons to Meet Us at Strata

If you’re visiting this year’s Strata Data Conference in New York, you can find us at Booth #P17, and absolutely should. Here are 5 reasons why our (modest) booth is probably going […]

A Judge Just Ordered LinkedIn to Allow Scraping – Here's Why

A Judge Just Ordered LinkedIn to Allow Scraping – Here's Why

When is it okay to grab data from someone else’s website, without their explicit permission? A new ruling by a federal judge in California might have dramatic implications on this question, and […]

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

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 […]

Machine Learning Showdown: Python vs R

Machine Learning Showdown: Python vs R

Let’s say you have an amazing idea for a machine learning app. It’s going to be brilliant. It’s going to revolutionize the world of finance, mobile advertising, or… some other world, but […]

Crawling the Dark Web to Detect the Next Market

Crawling the Dark Web to Detect the Next Market

Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with talk of the recent blows dealt by law enforcement to two major dark web “marketplaces”, AlphaBay and Hansa market; and the […]

Can Data Science Deliver a Fake News Detector?

Can Data Science Deliver a Fake News Detector?

Regardless of your political opinion, fake news has dominated the conversation since the 2016 US presidential election. The crux of the problem is that the very definition of what qualifies as fake […]

The Hackathon Award for Best API Mashup Goes to…

The Hackathon Award for Best API Mashup Goes to…

Competitive programming competitions, commonly referred to as Hackathons, offer a great opportunity for new talent to show what they can do. Much like professional sports, industry leaders send recruiters to scout out […]