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…
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…
With big data becoming more prevalent in the business world, a lot of data terms get thrown around, with many not quite understanding what they mean. What is data mining? Is there a difference between data mining and predictive analytics? How are the two related? All of these are great…
Data exploration is the very first step in the data analysis process. It all begins with exploring a large set of unstructured data while looking for patterns, characteristics, or points of interest. Summarizing the size, accuracy and initial patterns in the data is key to enabling deeper analysis. The purpose…
Being a data-driven business is important, but what does that mean exactly? Data-driven businesses make decisions based on data, which means they can be more confident that their actions will bring success since there is data to support them. So what is data analysis? In simple words, data analysis is…
The luxury retail market is thriving. To provide a better customer experience and be competitive, this online luxury retailer used Import.io to create a comprehensive product catalog with real time product data and pricing. By collecting data from thousands of global sites this luxury retailer can understand the attributes of…
When external data has been aggregated from multiple sources, you have to standardize the data before you can analyze it. Here at Import.io we understand the importance of this step, which is why it is built-in to our Web Data Integration solution. But before we get into that, let’s cover…
Heading to the Web Data Extraction Summit on September 17th in Dublin? Find out how you can maximize the value of web data by attending a session from our Founder and Chief Data Officer, Andrew Fogg. Through real world customer case studies, this session will discuss how global companies from…
Download the Dynamic Pricing Case Study “It is mission critical for us to be able to understand market prices in real time and have access to updated global product data – and we wouldn’t be able to do it without Import.io.” – Chief Technology Officer THE CHALLENGE With no…
What is Data Munging? Data munging, also known as data wrangling, is the data preparation process of manually transforming and cleansing large data sets. This process is typically performed manually using spreadsheets or scripts to filter out unwanted data and create a more relevant, digestible output. The problem with this…
