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4 Sectors That Benefited Most From Business Intelligence Software

Himanshi Bhatt
5 Mins
December 4, 2019
Data moves around the marketplace. It can be sourced internally or externally and collected from vendors, manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, consumers, and other players in the marketplace.

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Scrapy, Matplotlib, MySQL: Real Estate Data Analysis

Attila Toth
7 Mins
November 7, 2019
In this article, we will extract real estate listings from one of the biggest real estate sites and then analyze the data.

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Price Intelligence With Python: Scrapy, SQL, And Pandas

Attila Toth
7 Mins
October 8, 2019
In this article, I will guide you through a web scraping and data visualization project.

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Get News data extraction at scale | Zyte Automatic Extract

Attila Toth
6 Mins
September 17, 2019
A huge portion of the internet is news. It’s a very important type of content because there are always things happening either in our local area or globally that we want to know about.

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Gain a competitive edge with product data

Himanshi Bhatt
3 Mins
September 12, 2019
Product data—whether from e-commerce sites, auto listings, or product reviews—offers a treasure trove of insights that can give your business an immense competitive edge in your market

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Four popular use cases for online public sentiment data

Himanshi Bhatt
2 Mins
September 5, 2019
The manual method of discovery for gauging online public sentiment towards a product, company, or industry is cursory at best, and at worst, may harm your business by providing incorrect or misleading insights.

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Web Data Analysis: Exposing NFL Player Salaries With Python

Attila Toth
10 Mins
May 9, 2019
Football. From throwing a pigskin with your dad, to crunching numbers to determine the probability of your favorite team winning the Super Bowl, it is a sport that's easy to grasp yet teeming with complexity.

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The rise of web data in hedge fund decision making

Ian Kerins
8 Mins
February 1, 2019
Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the use of alternative data sources in investment decision making in hedge funds, investment banks, and private equity firms.

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Price intelligence: Scraping 100 billion products pages

Ian Kerins
10 Mins
July 2, 2018
Web scraping can look deceptively easy these days. There are numerous open-source libraries/frameworks, visual scraping tools, and data extraction tools that make it very easy to scrape data from a website.

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A Sneak Peek Inside What Hedge Funds Think of Alternative Financial Data

Ian Kerins
4 Mins
June 19, 2018
Unbeknownst to many, there is a data revolution happening in finance.
In their never ending search for alpha hedge funds and investment banks are increasingly turning to new alternative sources of data to give them an informational edge over the market.

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Want To Predict Fitbit’s Quarterly Revenue? Eagle Alpha Did It Using Web Scraped Product Data

Ian Kerins
7 Mins
June 7, 2018
Throughout the history of the financial markets information has been power.