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…
Why one company stopped building their own web scrapers and decided to work with Import.io instead What follows is the story of one Import.io customer who recently joined us after having built and operated their own web scraping team for over 15 years. Names and some key details have been…
San Francisco, CA., August 12, 2020 – Inc. magazine today ranked Import.io No. 739 on its 39th annual Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Import.io earned this prestigious recognition for its impressive three-year revenue growth of 640%, placing it among the top 100 fastest-growing software companies in…
The changes made to our lives as a result of the measures taken to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are not changing the future so much as accelerating it and pulling it forwards. Remote working and learning, video calls with friends and family, food delivery, ecommerce for everything…all of these…
What is property data? Property data, or real estate data, is used in a variety of ways within the real estate industry. Appraisers use this data to determine the market value of a given property, and insurers use it to better understand what they are insuring. In addition, homeowners or…
The online food delivery industry has emerged and grown tremendously over the past decade. Users have increasingly come to realize the convenience that online food delivery can provide them, making the food delivery market seemingly limitless. As of January 2020, 60 percent of U.S. consumers order delivery or takeout once…
By Import.io CEO, Gary Read, Forbes Councils Member Forbes Technology Council Original post: Forbes Technology Council While the alternative data market is thriving—and projected to be worth $350 million in 2020, up from $183 million in 2016—we have witnessed organizations suffer from alternative data fatigue in 2019. The same groups of alternative datasets are…
If you work in the travel or hospitality industry, you’ve likely heard the term revPAR. But is revPAR simply the latest buzzword? And how important is it, really? We’ll answer these questions and more in today’s article. What is RevPAR? Revenue Per Available Room, or RevPAR, is a key performance…
Organizations often turn to alternative data for relevant and complete datasets, but this route can lead them to alternative data fatigue. Alternative data providers offer datasets for competitive insights, but they often package and sell the same datasets to multiple hedge funds who then spend much of their time preparing…
