Mark van Rijmenam Interview: Blockchain, Big Data, and More
Mark van Rijmenam is the Founder of Datafloq. He is a highly sought-after international public speaker, a Big Data strategist and author of the best-selling book Think Bigger – Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business. He has been named as a global top 10 Big Data influencer. Currently, he is pursuing PhD at University […]
Read MoreBig Data Could Mean the Death of Subjectivity
We still live in a world where the majority of the decisions are made based on intuition and assumptions. As a race, humanity has been doing just fine with them, but why be fine when we can be better? Big data is being talked about by everyone these days. Advertisers, healthcare specialists, social scientists, and […]
Read MoreHow Apple Could’ve Used Web Crawling for Counterfeit Detection on Amazon
Could Apple have Identified Counterfeit Products by Web Crawling Amazon? Well, two of the biggest names in tech were recently in news for something they both weren’t happy about. Apple figured out that most of the chargers and lightning cables being sold on Amazon as genuine Apple accessories were in fact counterfeit products. The irony […]
Read MoreHow to Use Web Crawling to Detect Fraud
Web crawling and scraping solutions can often be misconstrued in negative light, in absence of legal and technological information in this field. Contrary to unpopular belief, data scraping technique deploys automated bots to visit and extract data from the web, and is gaining significant importance. Web crawling, just like any other technology, can be used […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight – Selvam
Meet Selvam Vasu, the man behind the stage ensuring a smooth run for our servers and infrastructure. Being the devops-guru, he makes sure nothing ever breaks, and in case something does, Selvam is always ready to work his magic and fix it within no time. He believes that a web server is similar to the […]
Read MoreHow IoT Devices Caused one of the Biggest DDoS Attacks
Millions of surfers couldn’t access some of the most popular websites on the web on Friday, October 21st after hackers bombarded them with bogus traffic. DDoS attacks such as this one are not a new thing, but the extent of damage caused this time makes this one of the major DDoS attacks we’ve seen in […]
Read MoreHow Web Scraping Affects your Revenue Growth
Web scraping is an indispensable resource when it comes to gaining an edge in the competition with the help of business intelligence. As more and more data gets created on the world wide web, the complexity of extracting it intensifies. Web scraping is a technology that demands an extensive tech stack, high end resources and […]
Read MoreBot Detection Agencies- A FUD?
Bots aka web crawling spiders make up about 40% of the traffic on the internet. They traverse through pages on the web looking for data they were programmed to find. If you run a website, you would know that a good share of your traffic comes from bots. Using bots to find and fetch information […]
Read MoreGoogle Docs Web Scraping Method to Extract Data
This post is about DIY web scraping tools. If you are looking for a fully customizable web scraping solution, you can add your project on CrawlBoard. How to Extract Data from a Website Using Google Docs? We’ve been using Google docs for creating spreadsheets and other documents for all this while. Did you know that […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight – Sukesh
Exposing the wizards behind PromptCloud The only thing that Sukesh Chande lacks is a halo above his head to signify the happiness and positivity being spread by him in the office. Even while dealing with tight schedules and stressful client meetings, he seems unaffected and cheerful as a child. With a ready to help attitude and […]
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