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GDPR Compliance Tools for Web Scraping Crawlers
Ian Kerins
5 Mins
May 30, 2018
Over the last couple weeks, GDPR has brought data protection center stage. What was once a fringe concern for most businesses overnight became a burning problem that needed to be solved immediately.
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How To Increase Sales With Online Reputation Management
Cecilia Haynes
6 Mins
December 15, 2016
One negative review can cost your business up to 22% of its prospects. This was one of the sobering findings in a study highlighted on Moz last year.
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Web Scraping Price Monitoring
Valdir Stumm Junior
5 Mins
November 24, 2016
Computers are great at repetitive tasks. They don't get distracted, bored, or tired.
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How You Can Use Web Data To Accelerate Your Startup
Cecilia Haynes
4 Mins
November 10, 2016
In just the US alone, there were 27 million individuals running or starting a new business in 2015.
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Interview: How Up Hail Uses Scrapy to Increase Transparency
Cecilia Haynes
6 Mins
October 6, 2016
During the 2016 Collision Conference held in New Orleans, Zyte Content Strategist Cecilia Haynes had the opportunity to interview the brains and the brawn behind Up Hail, the rideshare comparison app.
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What The Suicide Squad Tells Us About Web Data
Cecilia Haynes
4 Mins
August 11, 2016
Web data is a bit like the Matrix. It’s all around us, but not everyone knows how to use it meaningfully.
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Mapping Corruption In The Panama Papers With Open Data
Cecilia Haynes
5 Mins
April 6, 2016
We are at a point in the digital age where corruption is increasingly difficult to hide. Information leaks are abundant and shocking.
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Web Scraping to Create Open Data: Empowering Data Accessibility
Cecilia Haynes
4 Mins
March 30, 2016
Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.
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How Web Scraping Reveals Lobbying and Corruption in Peru
Valdir Stumm Junior
4 Mins
March 9, 2016
Update: With the release of the Panama Papers, a reliable means of exposing corruption and the methods of money laundering and tax evasion are now even more important. Web scraping provides an avenue to find, collate, and organize data without relying on information leaks.
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Web Scraping Finds Stores Guilty Of Price Inflation
Cecilia Haynes
8 Mins
February 10, 2016
Check out Part 1 comparing Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Part 2 comparing Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Green Monday, and Part 3 comparing Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
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Christmas Eve vs. New Year's Eve: Last-Minute Price Inflation Analysis
Cecilia Haynes
4 Mins
January 6, 2016
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Zyte Crawls The Deep Web
Shane Evans
< 1 Mins
February 24, 2015
Zyte is participating in Memex, an ambitious DARPA project that tackles the huge challenge of crawling, indexing, and making sense of areas of the Deep Web, that is, web content not being indexed by traditional search engines such as Google, Bing and others.