PromptCloud’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 […]
Read MoreTips 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 […]
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