Using Data Crawling to Increase Operational Efficiency
The emergence of digital revolution has led organizations to streamline a wide number of data sources and unstructured data. This revolution is driving the organizations to offer quick and accurate intelligence across multiple channels. The urge to move up the value chain is pushing traditional businesses increase operational efficiency by moving online. In the present […]
Read MoreWhat is HTML Scraping and how it works
There are many reasons why there may be a requirement to pull data or information from other sites, and usually the process begins after checking whether the site has an official API. There are very few people who are aware about the presence of structured data that is supported by every website automatically. We are […]
Read MoreBig Data analytics for transforming the gaming industry
A true gamer always hopes to take the longer wrong route before taking the right one, because that is how you enjoy a game to its fullest. The gaming industry has evolved from board games and low key video games to extensive multi-player games with excellent visual graphics and million user interactions like Dota, Halo, […]
Read MoreData Aggregation Services for Travel Hospitality
With the rise in online travel and hospitality offerings, the travel and hospitality industry is transforming its services leveraging data aggregation services. Data Aggregation Services are especially required in the Travel and Hospitality industry for concise predictive analytics, enterprise decision making, price and promotion modelling and others as well. Travel and Hospitality companies that have […]
Read MoreQualities of a Good Web Crawler
Web Crawlers came into existence in the early 90’s and since then they have been helping almost everyone directly or indirectly, making sense of the massive piles of unrelated data accumulated over the years on the internet. There are numerous web crawlers available to us today with varying degrees of usability, and we can pick […]
Read MoreBig Data & Data Analytics Outlook in 2015
Big Data has been a rage amongst large organisations for the last few years. The primary objective of Big Data analytics is to facilitate companies in making informed business decisions by capturing, curating, managing and processing huge amounts of data. Essentially, big data helps organizations discover hidden patterns, market trends, unknown correlations, customer preferences and […]
Read MoreBig Data Infrastructure: Preparing for a data-driven future
As 2014 draws to a close, it is evident that there has been no let-up in the scorching pace of growth seen in the Big Data space. The Big Data market is estimated to grow to about $45 billion by 2016 at a CAGR of 35%; according to some estimates, this segment is growing at […]
Read MoreSentiment Analysis: Why Twitter Is A Buzzing Goldmine for Marketers?
Sentiment analysis has become a buzzword lately as social networks are bustling with consumer chatter. Sentiment analysis, also known as opinion mining, is the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and text analytics for identifying patterns and extracting insights from consumer data. It is widely used by brands to gauge the reactions of their […]
Read MoreData Crawling Ethics and Best Practices
The shifting boundary between ethical and unethical practices in data scraping and crawling is a sensitive issue. Deciding what is Data Crawling ethics is quite subjective and debatable. Seeking ethical approval for crawling data could be a legal requirement in certain cases. For instance, web users are unable to notice crawlers and other programs that […]
Read MoreIBM –Watson Analytics: Human-Machine War Synthesis
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently raised his concerns over the end of the human race with the development of full artificial intelligence (A.I.) could spell the end of the human race. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, on the contrary, are fictional robotic constraints to prevent A.I. robots from harming humans. The operative word being ‘fictional’. Fiction […]
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