This article answers the question – what is big data? Big Data is getting bigger. This market growth has led to a proliferation of technology vendors touting themselves as “Big Data solution providers.” In fact, the volume and variety of Big Data vendors seems to rival the volume and variety…
We are excited to announce two new Import.io features that make web data integration and storage easier and more efficient. Using Import.io webhooks you can specify the URL or application, such as AWS, Zapier, or Google Cloud, where you want the data to be stored. Once the data is extracted,…
According to WaletHub, 150,000,000 hotdogs are consumed during the 4th of July holiday in the US. Considering the demand, we thought it would be interesting to find out if online grocers increase hot dog prices around the holiday. We set up price change reports on both Amazon and Walmart to…
Last year, online shopping sales hit a record $108.2 billion and this figure is set to grow in 2018 according to the National Retail Federation. About a third of shoppers start before Thanksgiving, but the day after Thanksgiving is still the biggest one day shopping event and not just in…
Whichever industry you work in, or whatever your interests, you will almost certainly have come across a story about how “data” is changing the face of our world. It might be helping to cure a disease, boost a company’s revenue, make a building more efficient or be responsible for those targeted ads you keep seeing.
In general, data is simply another word for information. But in computing and business (most of what you read about in the news when it comes to data – especially if it’s about Big Data), data refers to information that is machine-readable as opposed to human-readable.
*Originally posted on April 7th, 2017. Updated on June 28th, 2018. In real estate, the three most important elements are location, location, location. In e-commerce, it could very well be price, price, price. The product has to be decent, and the tide is slowing turning to put more emphasis on…
*Originally posted on December 4th, 2017. Updated on June 28th, 2018. Minimum advertised price (MAP) policies and MAP enforcement have been around since the early 1900s. However, they’ve perhaps never been more relevant and useful than they are today. That’s because we live in a world of instant price comparison….
According to a 2017 survey on digital transformation by Constellation Research, 64% of respondents said a digital transformation strategy was essential to driving profits, 70% said they had an IoT (Internet of Things) strategy, and a whopping 75% said they have a Big Data strategy. IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and…
Web data is here today, but may be gone tomorrow. Anyone, at any time, can change the information provided on a website they control. Prices and products change, content changes, statistics change, news may not always be archived, companies go under, and websites disappear. The point is, you don’t know…
According to Gartner Research, the market for data preparation solutions will reach $1 billion in 2019, with 30% of organizations employing some type of self-service data preparation tool set. So what exactly is data preparation, and why is it so important? Informatica.com defines data preparation as “a pre-processing step in…
