With so many businesses placing an emphasis on collecting and analyzing data, it’s important to take a closer look at the forms that data can come in. Data, after all, is the fuel that drives most companies nowadays. Even industries not normally associated with cutting edge technology are using massive…
It’s safe to say that we live in the era of big data. Collecting, storing, and analyzing information has become a top priority for organizations, which means that companies are building and utilizing databases to handle all that data. In the ongoing effort to use big data, you may have…
We are undergoing a period of data transformation in retail. The retail landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years, and this evolution is not likely to stop any time soon. Consumers are simply changing the way in which they shop. For example, even though the majority of shopping…
Data creation and consumption is becoming a way of life. According to a recent IBM report, the world produced approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day in 2017. By the year 2020, analysts predict that every second, about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created for every person…
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…
Tapping into web data represents a competitive imperative for any organization. Web data helps organizations gain the intelligence needed to optimize product and pricing strategies, investment decisions, risk management and much more. In this recorded webinar, find out how Import.io automates web data extraction and enables you to transform the…
From Extraction to Transformation to Insights Tapping into web data represents a competitive imperative for organizations across a wide range of industries, including retail, manufacturing, equity research, insurance, data science, and marketing. By using web data in critical decision processes, organizations gain the intelligence needed to optimize: Product and pricing…
“Big data” isn’t just a buzzword; it’s actually an accurate description of the data challenge organizations face today. Consider these statistics from Forbes: Between 2015 and 2020, the total digital universe of data will grow by a factor of 10 By 2020, there will be 6.1 billion mobile phone users,…
Import.io Transform helps customers reduce the time it takes to prepare data for analysis by cleaning the data directly in Import.io. Below is a walk-through of using Transform to clean and prepare data from Amazon.com and analyze customer ratings by brand. Our end-goal is to visualize and monitor how different brands…
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…
