5 Free Resources for Truly Advanced Analytics and Data Experts

5 Free Resources for Truly Advanced Analytics and Data Experts

The goal of this post is simple: to guide you into doing data analytics like a genuine pro. That means (beside the very first resource), this list is not meant for beginners. […]

The 15 Data Experts You Should be Following on Twitter

The 15 Data Experts You Should be Following on Twitter

Twitter is a phenomenal place not only to connect with peers in the analytics industry but also to follow and learn from its leading authorities. Unfortunately, the Twitter marketplace is crowded and […]

The Top 10 Data & Analytics Articles of 2015

The Top 10 Data & Analytics Articles of 2015

The online world of data and analytics is fast approaching epic portions. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Why? Because, not only has big data been big business in 2015 … but posts, […]

Five Reasons a News Crawler Is Essential to Your Business

Five Reasons a News Crawler Is Essential to Your Business

“Originality is the art of remembering something but forgetting where you heard it.” Case in point, especially when it comes to running an online business. Why? Because in today’s online marketplace, sales, […]

Extracting Data from Forums: 3 Sources to Discover What Your Market Really Thinks

Extracting Data from Forums: 3 Sources to Discover What Your Market Really Thinks

Robert Collier, the great ad man of the early 20th century, once summarized the secret of all effective marketing as entering “the conversation already taking place in the customer’s mind.” That’s powerful […]

Article’s publication date extractor – an overview

Article’s publication date extractor – an overview

A few days ago I’ve released an open source Python module that provides you with a simple way to extract and normalize the publication date of any online blog or news post. […]

How to Extract Data from a Website: 5 Steps to Transform Unstructured Data into Business Insights

How to Extract Data from a Website: 5 Steps to Transform Unstructured Data into Business Insights

Big data is big business. And for good reason. As Harvard Business Review recently reported, an exhaustive study of 330 North American companies led by the MIT Center for Digital Business in […]

Social Media Analytics: Insights from Structured versus Unstructured Data

Social Media Analytics: Insights from Structured versus Unstructured Data

Let’s be honest … social media is a challenge. Not only is staying current, active, and “topped off” a chore, but crafting full-scale campaigns that contribute to your business’ and brand’s actual […]

Ever imagined how "Big Data" looks like?

Ever imagined how "Big Data" looks like?

We have created a fun little experiment, letting you navigate in a 3D universe of real data from the open web. The data is made out of important news and blog titles, their meta-data […]

30-Days of Historical Data Access for Webz.io Now Available

30-Days of Historical Data Access for Webz.io Now Available

I’m very happy to let you know about the launch of our extended access to 30-days of historical data from Webz.io, which is available to our paying customers immediately. No waiting list. […]