Cool use of data scraping with Import.io! Craig (@craigsdewar) shows how he uses data scraping to get horse racing data from http://racenet.com.au using @importio and @alteryx to create a cool CRAIGsBET @Tableau dashboard.
“Import.io gives us access to a continuous supply of high-quality data for market intelligence.” Situation The key to XiKO’s success lies in its ability to apply linguistic modeling to vast amounts of data collected from websites. Before Import.io Home-grown tool Losing production time to data extraction – not core competency…
Import.io continues to improve the customer experience Now, you can see all of your activity in one place! The dashboard shows you when extractors are scheduled to run and lists the historical runs. Check out your data health, how many queries you have left, when your plan resets, and more.
Data professionals spend 73% of their time getting and preparing their data and just 27% on actually gaining insights according to a 2018 IDC Business Analytic Solutions survey. Import.io has already slashed the time it takes to get the data and is now decreasing the time to prepare and update…
Here’s something you’ll rarely – if ever – hear someone say: “I have enough customers. I’m happy with my current profit-level. I don’t need to grow.” The old axiom tells us that if your business isn’t growing, it’s dying. You’re either gaining or losing ground. And in the business world,…
“Import.io not only allows us to get more data in less time, it also saves us money. Delivering the volume of data we are doing today using those old tools would have cost us almost $5,000 a week.” Situation Success is predicated on its ability to effectively gather vast amounts…
Import.io today released two new product features, available free of charge to everyone who has an Import.io premium plan or above. The features are designed to protect private information and ensure that customers have the ability to observe good digital citizenship when accessing website data. These capabilities are particularly important…
“Import.io is instrumental in helping us continue to improve the quality of our market intelligence database for our clients.” Situation Manage a proprietary market intelligence database of over 300,000 U.S. and Canadian retail brokers. Before Import.io Time-consuming – manual updates Took three weeks full-time employee Delayed expansion of services Error-prone…
“With Import.io, we have been able to deliver more value and higher quality products for our clients. We just love Import.io.” Situation With data at the core of its business, FiscalNote must collect vast amounts of web data across a broad range of sources. Before Import.io Monitored only 1,000 websites…
You hear about the importance of data to the bottom-line in ecommerce, equity investment, market research, and many other for-profit ventures, but what about data for good? We found some great examples of companies and organizations using the world’s data for good. Small, medium, or big, we live in the…
