Restructuring Social Media Platforms for the Greater Good

Restructuring Social Media Platforms for the Greater Good

What if we restructure social media spaces for better and healthier public debates by rebuilding the algorithms again from scratch?

A Look at News Trends from the COVID-19 Crisis

A Look at News Trends from the COVID-19 Crisis

See how MeaningCloud, a leader in text analytics, used Webz.io’s news API to analyze new Covid-19 trends.

Beating the Market with Alternative Web Data

Beating the Market with Alternative Web Data

Learn how web data from news articles, blogs, discussions and forums is an important alternative data resource.

Webz.io 2018 Year in Review

Webz.io 2018 Year in Review

The Year in Review at Webz What a year we’ve had at Webz! With your ongoing feedback we’ve been able to develop offerings that better serve you. As we stop to catch…

The Danger of Fake Reviews

The Danger of Fake Reviews

How to Spot Fake Reviews in Time for the Holidays Black Friday is here, and as the biggest shopping day of the year, it means a lot of people will be on…

3 Predictions for Web Data in 2018

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

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…

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…

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…

How to Use Online Review Ratings to Crush the Market

How to Use Online Review Ratings to Crush the Market

Sifting through millions of posts on review sites presents both a massive undertaking and an incredible opportunity for influencer marketing. Some of the most successful app makers are capitalizing on that oppotunity. Use…

The Race to Achieve 100% Coverage of the Web

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…

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