4 Reasons You Should Use JSON Instead of CSV

Do you deal with large volumes of data? Does your data contain hierarchical information (e.g., multiple reviews for a single product)? Then you need to be using JSON as your go-to data format instead of CSV.

The Money Pit: Why You Shouldn’t Build Your Own Web Scrapers

There’s a promise of great data treasure…

What is Web Crawling?

Introduction

Web crawling can be a very complicated and technical subject to understand. Every web page on the Internet is different from the next, which means every web crawler is different (at least in some way) from the next.

The Pizza Capital of the US

Pizza is the most important food in America. Pizza may have its humble origins in Italy, but it was America…

Building a Web Scraper

We briefly touched on how to build a web scraper in our last post on web crawling. In this post, I’ll go into more detail about how to do this. When I use the term “web scraper,” I’m referring to a very specific type of web crawler — one that looks at a specific website and extracts data…

How to Structure Your Team When Building a Data Startup

How often do you get advice that is directly relevant to what you need right now? Probably never.

As a startup founder, I read a lot of articles about building and growing a business. A lot of these articles…