How to Evaluate Web Scraping Services
The world wide web – the entire world and its many wonders is congregated at the tip of your fingertip. But how do you access all relevant data to make an informed decision? Who will do that for you? Web scraping service providers. If you do a quick and simple Google search: web scraping service […]
Read MoreHow can You Become a Data-Driven Organization?
Data-driven organization seeks to optimize data and its repercussions in way of their daily decision making. They have a thorough process to turn raw numbers into actionable insights and actionable points into raw data again. This vicious circle is what drives these data-driven companies at every level. There is no real dearth of data. But […]
Read MoreMachine Learning vs Predictive Analysis: Difference and Usage
Machine Learning Machine learning is a computational technique in which different algorithms can be used to generate models from data in real-time. These models are then used to produce consumable results from fresh data. As more data is fed into the system with time, the model automatically evolves based on its new learnings. Machine Learning […]
Read MoreIs Web Crawling Legal – All You Need to Know
Businesses that involve crawling the web are shot with this question at every platform possible. Our answer to this mundanity- Is crawling a web page is legal? Hell Yes! Crawling means fetching content from the web pages in an automated manner as opposed to manually opening each page in your browser. The calls made by […]
Read MoreWhat is Web Scraping and Why Do Businesses Need it?
The typical uses of web scraping are only limited by our own imagination. It crawls and extracts large amounts of data from literally all websites for a plethora of uses, such as price monitoring, financial data spidering, analyzing news aggregation, to name a few. Scraping and crawling are empowering businesses to create new products and […]
Read MoreLearning by doing @ PromptCloud
Startups are a great place to work if you want to learn new things and gain lots of hands-on experience. I heard this numerous times from friends, seniors and mostly blogs. I also heard that startups pay less and have lot of risk involved. Putting more emphasis on the learning part (quite often I think […]
Read MoreData Quality in The Age of Big Data
What is the first word that conjures up in your mind when you hear the word data quality? It’s difficult to really define it in real objective terms. Why do we need it but? Just because of the sheer amount of data that is available. The ‘size’ of data is no longer tin TB’s but […]
Read MoreIs the Absence of Quality Data Limiting the Growth of AI?
The Future of AI lies in The Hands of Quality Data Sounds a little absurd doesn’t it? Shouldn’t the future lie in the hands of man? But if you look at the growth of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, you will be able to spot that the latest innovations have piggybacked on the massive amount […]
Read MoreWhy Web Scraping should be at The Core of Your Business Strategy
You have just had a review meeting with the top management, and launching new products in the market seems to be the next goal. As a strategy champion for multiple business units in a consumer business, you have brainstormed and dissected the strategy with the BU owners, and have narrowed down what options make the […]
Read MoreWeb Scraping IMDB for The Best Movies and Shows
Would you like to know what are the top-250 movies of all time? Or the best comedy shows that have ever hit the small screens? For all such answers, reviews, ratings, and trivia related to the world of movies and shows, people all over the world use IMDB, which is an online database of such […]
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