Web 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 MoreBenefits of Business Intelligence for Small Businesses | PromptCloud
According to a report published by VCloudNews, businesses create roughly 2.5 million terabytes of data on a daily basis. When collected, arranged, and analyzed, this data gives us an invaluable insight into our consumers and business performance. But, the question is- are you getting the most of this information? To do so, small businesses should […]
Read MoreWhy ELT is Crucial in the Big Data Space
Data warehousing is as important as analytics. If you wish to leverage crucial data sets to accelerate growth within the enterprise, it will be imperative to create effective data warehouses. Chunks of data available in different formats from different sources might not always be useful. Process developers, business owners, and marketers may not use large […]
Read MoreIs Your Data Strategy Outdated? A Checklist | PromptCloud
Irrespective of your enterprise and operations you run, user-friendly functionality and easily comprehensible analytics have to be within your reach. Big Data has paved a new path of success for numerous sectors across the globe. From business processes to science and engineering, there’s no place where big data isn’t an integral part anymore. Striking a […]
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 MoreTop Incubators and Accelerators for Big Data Startups
While every start-up owner would like to think that his/her business is going to be successful, investors don’t think the same way. Investors have their own perspective and proven formula which focuses on the profitability and the scalability of the company’s business. For a start-up, capital infusion is the fuel that can fire up their […]
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 […]
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