A Guide to Evaluate your Big Data Needs
Big data will help solve your problems and analytics will open a world of possibilities. But use it unwisely, and it’ll leave you dazed with its sheer volume. Your precious data tools will be rendered useless even as you face a data deluge and don’t know what to do with it. It’s not all that […]
Read MoreBig Data in Science
Rapidly making in-roads into the scientific research domain, the potential of big data in advancing research is undeniable. Traditionally, though, big data has always been used by scientists. Large data sets were used by high-energy particle and nuclear physics. When the Human Genome Project finished mapping in 2003, they were sitting on a data set […]
Read MoreScraping Data: Site-specific Extractors vs. Generic Extractors
Scraping is becoming a rather mundane job with every other organization getting its feet wet with it for their own data gathering needs. There have been enough number of crawlers built – some open-sourced and others internal to organizations for in-house utilities. Although crawling might seem like a simple technique at the onset, doing this […]
Read MoreGrowth Hacking Techniques – Part-2
Growth hacking techniques rely on analytics and data to get better insight. The advantage over competition is more if organic search, SEO, and SEM is right. It is essential for a growth hacker – a specialist in his own right – to be able to answer the following questions: What the customer wants Where he […]
Read MoreGrowth Hacking | Part – 1
Dropbox did it and so did Airbnb; and quite successfully at that. Both have millions of users today because of what they did. What did they do? They hacked growth – a hybrid of traditional marketing and coding that enables rapid customer acquisition growth. With Growth Hacking, a new generation of marketers is changing the […]
Read MoreThe PromptCloud Advantage- Web Scraping with an Edge
The global market is now more aware of its data scraping needs. And so with the demand, the list of suppliers has grown too. This post is dedicated to bringing out the PromptCloud Advantage among such providers. 1. The know-how– Crawling the web, as mundane as it may sound, is a fairly complex task. No one […]
Read MoreBig Data for Mass Media
House of Cards by Netflix exploded on TV when it aired. Big data helped it gather the audience – and the ratings! – they wanted. Hollywood’s doing it now, as are major networks and media corporations across the world. The question naturally is: how is big data relevant to the media & entertainment business? No […]
Read MoreStructured Data Formats- What to use When
Days of unstructured raw data are blurry as most data-driven companies turn their eyes on to structured data which can be easily imported into their internal systems, read by their machines, and analyzed by their teams to keep cutting the edges. But while you have stepped on to the task of data acquisition via crawling […]
Read MoreOutsourcing Web Crawls- SLAs to visit
If you deal with data on the web, more often than not would you have made a choice to employ an external entity for your data acquisition needs. SLAs You Need To Consider Here are the SLAs you’d need to consider when having a DaaS provider do the crawls for you- 1. Crawlability– If you’re […]
Read MoreCrawling the web: The Trends and Challenges
As an evolving field, extracting data from the web is still a gray area – without any clear ground rules regarding the legality of web scraping. With growing concerns among companies regarding how others use their data, crawling the web is gradually becoming more and more complicated. The situation is further aggravated by the growing […]
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