In an effort to provide the consumer the best price, online retailers are employing software to monitor rival websites to know their pricing. Known as ‘scraping’, it helps retailers adjust their own prices. By: FE Bureau | New Delhi | Published: July 29, 2018 12:17 AM Original article here In the world of…
Businesses are going big with their big data strategy. According to a 2017 study by New Vantage partners, 37.2% of surveyed organizations have invested more than $100M in a big data strategy within the past five years, with 6.5% investing over $1B. And it’s paying off. Nearly 50% of companies…
Data has never been easier to obtain from the infant stages of scripted search engine queries and web scraping to large-scale API and big data initiatives. Original article on Forbes Tech executives have been enabling businesses to run in an organized and efficient manner for decades, but system uptime alone…
Today, shoppers can easily check pricing on multiple websites and buy at the lowest price. According to a recent study by Market Track, 80% of respondents said they would compare prices online before making a purchase – whether online or in-store. Investing 20 minutes to compare pricing of one product…
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…
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This new price data will gathered in a process known as “web scraping” Original story on The Telegraph The UK’s official number crunchers are transforming their data gathering in order to measure the “Amazon effect” on the prices of goods and services. No longer just based on a traditional “shopping…
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…
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 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….
