In today’s world, data is the fuel to growth for almost all companies operating in various spaces of business and commerce. Today, gaining access to insightful data has become more essential than ever. Ever since the advent of internet and the world wide web, and with the recent mobile connectivity on a rampant expansion, the world is getting closer and uniform one byte at a time. Trade and business has expanded beyond geographies and beyond land, water and air – it is on the inte.........
It is almost close to three decades since the advent of web crawlers which was incepted in the early nineties. It has been quite a long time since web crawlers have been assisting in cutting out the chaos only to streamline data like extracting music out of noise. While, in its early days, the role of web crawlers was restricted to fetching and storing webpage statistics, with time, even these virtual bots have evolved. Today, these web crawlers are capable of not only fetching any kind of da.........
Web crawling and web scraping are often used interchangeably, but is that really the case? Maybe not.
There’s a fine line of distinction between the two concepts. To put things simply, a typical crawling function includes docking onto a webpage and tracking the relevant links while scanning through the actual text and subsequently proceeds to the next webpage and so on.
On the flipside, web scraping refers to parsing through content on a webpage and collecting partic.........
Today, the world is all about being dynamic. Change is now the only constant. With technology and communications through data, the world has not only become dynamic but is also robust. With so much of data floating around, businesses and individuals are informed alike. The wall of information asymmetry is slowly crumbling. Businesses today, take a considerable quantum of decisions based on data and analytics of numerable data sets. Large data sets lead to a heavier and more efficient form of .........
The amount of data being transmitted and shared over the internet is outstanding. Interestingly, a large chunk of the trillion-ton data ocean is not created by large corporations, but by individuals across the globe. It would be interesting to look at the statistics –