Mining Emma Watson’s Tweets with R
The Twitter stream of any person contains rich social data that can unveil a lot about that person. Since Twitter data is public and the API is open for anyone to use, data mining techniques can be easily applied to find out everything from the timing patterns and the topics the person focuses on to […]
Read MoreBig Data in CPG, Retail, and Beauty Market
Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said, “Artificial intelligence is the future not only of Russia but of all of mankind. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”. The same applies to the present business world too. Companies from different industries have already started or are starting to consume […]
Read MoreHotel Price Scraping and Optimization Strategy – PromptCloud
Customer experience has been one of the biggest drivers of a high sales figure in the hotel industry. While service and customer experience will always remain important in the hospitality space, the inception of online travel agencies has partially made the market a lot more price-sensitive than it initially was. Price-sensitivity is in fact something […]
Read MoreTackling Pagination for Web Scraping – PromptCloud
Web design is a dynamic space where coding best practices, standards and design trends change very often. While most of such changes are meant for the betterment of user experience for the visitors, bots often have a hard time navigating a webpage designed with humans in mind. Navigating through different pages on a website is […]
Read MoreCrawlBoard Update: Crawl Scheduler, Billing and Crawling Notifier
Having ready access to relevant data is becoming more and more crucial with the increasing need for data-backed decision-making in today’s business scene. While there is a wide variety of options when it comes to web data extraction, most of them are either too much work for the user or give little to no control. […]
Read MoreTop Rated Data Visualization Projects
With stunning visualizations emerging frequently, 2017 was truly an exceptional year for visualization and data lovers — right from Cassini satellite to solar eclipse, to the effect of cultures on graphics. In this post we have compiled 10 best data visualization projects that made their mark in 2017. They are in no particular order and have been […]
Read MoreWeb Scraping Unveils Tech Trends & Company’s Media Mentions in 2017
Web data extraction or web scraping can be a great business tool for trend spotting via media monitoring. Essentially, leading media outlets can be tracked to unveil the top buzzwords and the number of mentions companies (including their products) garner over specific time period. We wanted to apply this method to understand the Top tech […]
Read MorePromptCloud’s Year in Review 2017
Time does fly and January feels like it was yesterday yet next January is less than a month away. It’s been a busy year at PromptCloud and also a remarkable one as far as the big data industry goes. Data continues to disrupt the way technology works and is helping build new and innovative applications […]
Read MoreWhat Does 2018 Have in Store for the Big Data Industry – PromptCloud
According to IDC, worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will grow more than $203 billion by 2020. One of the biggest challenges faced by anyone venturing into big data is the transformation of raw data into insightful information. By 2025, we’d be generating 180 Zettabytes of data per year and much of this data […]
Read MoreApplications Of Web Scraping In Financial Services Industry
Every company across the globe knows that the web contains valuable information that can be applied in their business irrespective of the industry. However, this untapped potential of web data largely gets hindered because of the unstructured nature, but if it can be extracted and applied correctly, then the benefit can be enormous. This is […]
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