Tips to Cut Costs Associated with Web Data Extraction – PromptCloud
Web data extraction may not have gained the importance it deserves at companies that are new to the big data game. While most companies prioritize data analysis, reporting and visualization as the crucial things to handle, they usually end up allocating a low budget for the web scraping process. In fact, we have had some […]
Read MoreSpooky Insights from Horror Movie Data Visualization – PromptCloud
Halloween is typically all about scary costumes, candies and jack-o’-lanterns. This Halloween, we made things a bit more exciting with our Halloween Data Visualization contest. The rules were simple, we released an IMDB dataset containing more than 9,500 records of horror movie data visualization and dared our followers to find spooky insights from it. The […]
Read MoreIdentifying Industry Influencers with Web Crawling | PromptCloud
When was the last time you sat through a TV commercial without reaching for the remote to switch the channel? It’s definitely going to take a while to recollect. However, it shouldn’t be news when we say that the returns from traditional advertising is going down with the advent of social media and internet marketing. […]
Read MoreIs B2B Ready for Big Data Yet? – PromptCloud
Big Data as a technology has been traditionally associated with B2C companies since it emerged when search engines wanted to index the internet and provide answers to user queries. Another important factor is the huge customer base of consumer companies resulting in a wider set of data points to gather and analyze. While B2C businesses […]
Read MoreUsing ElastAlert with ElasticSearch for Massive-Scale Data
At PromptCloud, we deal with data on a massive scale daily, with nearly millions of records and logs being written into Elasticsearch in almost real-time. For the scalable architecture we have, this amount of data is ever increasing. We’ve had to encounter many undesirable situations in the past – unwanted behaviour from data, servers going […]
Read MoreInteresting Trends Shaping the Future of Data Visualization
The humongous amounts of data available today is almost causing an information overload for anyone venturing into its analyses. This trend seems to be going nowhere since the data is only growing in size over time. Future of Data Visualization has been the most resourceful tool that’s been keeping this big data consumable for the […]
Read MoreAnalysis and Visualization of Amzon Echo Dot 2 Reviews
Amazon Echo Dot, the hefty hockey puck of a device is a smart speaker which has been the best-selling Alexa device since its debut. It was also Amazon’s best-selling device during the 2016 holiday season apart from being the most popular item on Prime Day. The Dot’s value proposition starts with the price tag. Smart speakers […]
Read MoreData Collection Sources for Various Business Applications | PromptCloud
Although there is a goldmine of web data freely available to crawl and extract, businesses need to be pointed in the right direction while identifying the correct sources of data collection for their particular use case. The uncertainty while identifying web sources is natural since the data available on the web is primarily meant for […]
Read MoreSupervised vs Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques – PromptCloud
Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning : Discovering patterns from data by employing intelligent algorithms is generally the core concept of machine learning. These discoveries often lead to actionable insights, prediction of various trends and help businesses gain a competitive edge or sometimes even power new and innovative products. We had recently explained the concept of machine […]
Read MoreLeveraging Web Scraping for Cryptocurrency Trading – PromptCloud
The price of bitcoin hit an all-time high of $5840.30 on last Friday, surpassing all the previous records. Also, the combined value of all bitcoin in circulation hit a peak of $96.7 billion. The prices of other cryptocurrencies are also on the rise. Despite being referred to as a ‘bubble’ by many of the popular […]
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