We talk a lot about the Deep Web which many people think is the same as the Dark Web. It is not. In this short video, we uncover what the Dark Web actually is and who should be monitoring Dark Web data. Interested in learning more about the Deep Web vs. the Dark Web? Download […]
We just added a new case study to our website. This case study focuses on how Deep Web data harvesting is helping combat online pharmaceutical fraud. Keep in mind that this same process can be applied to help protect any intellectual property that may be vulnerable online. The case study takes you through the entire BrightPlanet process […]
With over 1.65 billion monthly active users, it’s no surprise that businesses want to access user-generated content from Facebook. Status updates, likes, reviews, comments, photos, and videos all contribute to a sea of web data generated by Facebook users. But what exactly can be collected from Facebook and how are companies typically accessing that data? […]
How often are the presidential candidates being mentioned in the news? And who’s mentioning them? Two questions we asked ourselves at BrightPlanet recently. Fortunately for us, we already had the data in our Global News Data Feed to help answer those questions. Using the Global News Data Feed, we created the following visualization via Tableau to help answer […]
We’ve launched a completely new website. It’s been four years since our last website redesign, and we continue to make improvements to our data harvesting technology so it was time to make sure the website reflected those improvements.
In a previous video, we talked about what harvesting data from the web entails. In our latest video, we talk about how the data is organized (aka curated) after it has been harvested.
We specialize in harvesting and curating custom datasets for our customers. This means that our customers have access to a completely unique dataset created for them unlike any other dataset in the world. But sometimes our customers don’t exactly know what sources and websites to harvest. Our latest educational video explains how we work with […]
The World Trademark Review recently published a startling commentary on a study in an article titled, “We are failing”: study reveals $461 billion international trade in counterfeit and pirated goods. The article details the failings of companies when it comes to combatting counterfeiting online. In this post, we hope to cover how harvesting web data […]
Would you like to learn more about Tableau and data visualization? Want to better understand how to manage data and quit using Excel? Come join a group of local Tableau enthusiasts at our second Sioux Falls Tableau User Group (TUG) meeting.
This is Jamie Martin writing once again about a new data visualization I’ve been working on. If you didn’t see my basketball ranking data visualization a few weeks ago, you should check it out as well.