Avoid Biased Data Analysis with Clean and Structured Data

Avoid Biased Data Analysis with Clean and Structured Data

I want to share with you an unfortunate truth: All data is biased. Here at Webz, we’ve written about this at length in our posts that explained how surveys are biased and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

How to Keep Your Restaurant Sentiment Analysis Well-Fed

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 […]

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

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 […]

Webz.io Archive Access is now LIVE

Webz.io Archive Access is now LIVE

Following popular demand, we are really happy and excited to grant access to Webz.io’s historical data archive. This is the first time that anyone can programmatically access a huge index of the internet […]

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 […]