Web Scraping Away $5 Billion

Is web scraping good? Or is it bad?

Before I wrestle with the answer, here’s what happened on Monday:

NASDAQ posted the 1st quarter earnings on Twitter’s investor relations web page for 45 secs at ~3:00 p.m. EST. This…

400,000+ Hotel Reviews Across 50 States: What We Were Surprised to Learn

Psst.. Fashion Retail, Your Pricing Slip is Showing

Fashion Week 2015 in NYC created a fantasy land of colors, fabrics and garments to make people feel their most powerful. As the glamorous event drew to a close, designers got a chance to display their innovation, imagination and…

To Trust or Not to Trust Online Reviews, That is the Question

Online shopping is one of the greatest inventions ever. At least, that’s my opinion. I’m a confessed Amazon power user. I’ve got a prime account, I use subscriptions to auto-manage most of my regular purchases, and I always…

Your Biggest Untapped Source of Data

Quick — can you tell me what your company’s most valuable source of data is? Is it your company’s (a) CRM software, (b) POS system, or © ERP platform? If you chose any of these as your answer, you answered incorrectly. The correct answer is (d) The Web.

The Sticky Challenges of Web Data Quality

A company’s biggest database is not its ERP or CRM or other internal databases but the…

Need for Speed: Solving the Real Estate Sector’s Need for Fresh Data

“There is gold in them thar hills” said Mulberry Sellers, a Mark Twain character lured by the California gold rush. Today, Mulberry would say “There is gold in them thar web.”

The One Thing that Matters with Data: Thoughts from the Wolfram Data Summit