Was Black Friday Worth It? The Crawled eCommerce Data Answer

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…

How To Get The Data Your AI Application Needs

How To Get The Data Your AI Application Needs

The more data you have available to use, the more you can reduce uncertainty in the functioning of your machine learning program, whether for training or for deriving insights. Learn how web data can help.

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…

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…

How to use rated reviews for sentiment classification

How to use rated reviews for sentiment classification

Sentiment classification is a fascinating use case for machine learning. Regardless of complexity – you need two core components to deliver meaningful results; a machine learning engine and a significant volume of…

Top 10 Big Data Stories Leading the Conversation

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…

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

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

5 Free Resources for Truly Advanced Analytics and Data Experts

5 Free Resources for Truly Advanced Analytics and Data Experts

The goal of this post is simple: to guide you into doing data analytics like a genuine pro. That means (beside the very first resource), this list is not meant for beginners….

The 15 Data Experts You Should be Following on Twitter

The 15 Data Experts You Should be Following on Twitter

Twitter is a phenomenal place not only to connect with peers in the analytics industry but also to follow and learn from its leading authorities. Unfortunately, the Twitter marketplace is crowded and…

How to Extract Data from a Website: 5 Steps to Transform Unstructured Data into Business Insights

How to Extract Data from a Website: 5 Steps to Transform Unstructured Data into Business Insights

Big data is big business. And for good reason. As Harvard Business Review recently reported, an exhaustive study of 330 North American companies led by the MIT Center for Digital Business in…

Ever imagined how "Big Data" looks like?

Ever imagined how "Big Data" looks like?

We have created a fun little experiment, letting you navigate in a 3D universe of real data from the open web. The data is made out of important news and blog titles, their meta-data…