Silicon Review has included Import.io amongst its list of top 50 workplaces in 2020. You can see the full list here and read the interview with Gary Read our CEO below. We believe that web data can solve the most difficult business problems and answer the most interesting questions that…
At Import.io, data is not just what we deliver via our product but informs everything that we do, including how we evaluate the work that we do with our customers. The following data story is from one of our larger e-commerce clients and shows the difference in data quality that…
In any major enterprise, it is a risk to take someone else’s data at face value. Which is why companies are investing in building their own datasets. The web represents the largest dataset ever created and it is largely under-used by companies, meaning that there is a lot of opportunity…
[UPDATE: Over the weekend Marcus Rashford continued to use his Twitter account to share announcements from local businesses offering to provide free meals for children over October half term. As of Monday morning he has shared announcements from over 400+ businesses.] The web data story We pulled the hundreds…
You know that the best data about your customers, your competitors and your market exists outside of your organization, out there, on the web. You know how valuable this web data is to your business, but the data on the web is not structured or organized to be read by…
[UPDATE: Charts and dataset are being updated automatically and are available for download, links below.] Web scraping news stories reveals interesting trends about how the media cover the 2020 election campaigns of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We used Import.io to access and analyze 50,000 news stories from the websites…
Here at Import.io we like to use web data to answer any question and questions about COVID-19 are no different. Over the course of the year we felt that we had noticed the tone of US corporate communications change from “emergency!” in the early stages of the pandemic to “this…
Your company needs data to thrive. Quality data leads to key insights for businesses, and factors heavily into their decision-making. But where do you find quality data? While much of your company’s data will come from internal sources such as CRM and ERP software, even more of it will come…
September 23, 1999 is a day that will live in data accuracy infamy. It was on that date that the $125M NASA Mars Climate Orbiter lost communication with mission control as it approached its operating orbit around the red planet. Engineers quickly surmised that the spacecraft burned up in the…
Before embarking on a project to write your own web scrapers, here are 10 questions to ask yourself and your team: Does your team have the experience in writing code for web scraping? (It is harder than it looks) What are the server / networking / storage costs to continually…
