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Single Program for Scraping Dynamic Websites
Web crawling is, without a doubt, a complex trade; however if the target site in question employs dynamic coding practices, this complexity is further multiplied. Over the years, we have understood the technical nuances of web scraping and perfected our modus operandi to crawl websites which is dynamic in nature with high accuracy and efficiency. […]
Read MoreEfficient Web Crawling Set Up for Data Extraction
Internal data available in organizations is limited by its scope, which makes companies turn towards the web to meet their data requirements. However, extracting this data in a way that will make sense for business applications remains a challenging process. The increased interest from mid and large scale organisations for establishing their web crawling set […]
Read MoreOutsourcing your Web Scraping Project: Things to Know
Outsourcing your web scraping project might be an intimidating decision to make considering that you are trusting a third-party vendor with the potential to impact your big data project positively or negatively. This fear is not completely pointless. Since the insights and results that you derive from data are only as good as the data […]
Read MoreThe Ultimate Guide to Web Data Extraction
Web data extraction (also known as web scraping, web harvesting, screen scraping, etc.) is a technique for extracting vast amounts of data from websites on the internet. The data available on websites is not available to download easily and can only be accessed by using a web browser. However, the web is the largest repository […]
Read MoreLearn How Chatbots Work
Effective customer interaction is the key to achieving unsurpassed success, and there’s no denying this fact. Consumer engagement helps you gain crucial insights into consumer behavior and market trends. However, businesses across the globe are facing critical challenges and problems to meet these demands. It’s here that technology comes to their rescue. With the online […]
Read MoreRead and Respect Robots.txt File
Robots.txt is a file used by websites to let ‘search bots’ know if or how the site should be crawled and indexed by the search engine. Many sites simply disallow crawling, meaning the site shouldn’t be crawled by search engines or other crawler bots. When you are trying to extract data from the web, it […]
Read MoreExploratory Factor Analysis in R
What is exploratory factor analysis in R? Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) or roughly known as factor analysis in R is a statistical technique that is used to identify the latent relational structure among a set of variables and narrow it down to a smaller number of variables. This essentially means that the variance of a […]
Read MoreLatest on Deep Learning, Google’s AI Codes AI Apps
The round-up post for December 2016 covered McKinsey’s report on data science, Deepfield’s Acquisition by Nokia and AWS Managed Services. In this post, we’ll cover 2017 January’s latest news and events from the data science, AI and cloud computing field. Intel Open-sources BigDL Chip giant Intel has open-sourced BigDL, a deep learning framework that runs […]
Read MorePromptcloud explores Gerrit and Jenkins Integration Setup
Integration Setup Using Gerrit and Jenkins The life of a developer can get a bit monotonous with the repetitive and complicated tasks. Thankfully, we have tools that can regularly handle the mundane tasks without ever complaining once you set them up. When you add automation to testing and deployment, the solution can be called a […]
Read MoreAWS Managed Services and Data Analytics report
Earlier we discussed about the launch of Amazon Quicksight, analytics for a) Messenger bots, b) application of machine learning in Google Translate and c) Intel’s Nervana strategy. In this post, PromptCloud will cover the latest news and events from the data analytics and cloud computing field. 1. McKinsey Releases Report on The State of Data […]
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