Welcome to the second post in BrightPlanet’s three part series that follows completely unformatted, unstructured web pages through the three step process that data follows to be made into actionable intelligence. Stage 1 – Harvesting Stage 2 (this post) – Normalization / Enrichment Stage 3 – Reporting and Analytics In our last blog posting, we […]
Many businesses and institutions know about Big Data and know they need to integrate it into their every day, but they don’t know how to get beyond the hype and make it usable. Some industries are ahead of others, but there is still huge headway to be made. Retail is great at collecting and compiling […]
Welcome to the first of a series of blog postings about how you take data from harvesting to actionable intelligence. This three part series will follow data from a completely unformatted, unstructured web page through the three step process that data follows to be made into actionable intelligence. Stage 1 (this post) = Harvesting Stage […]
A recent Business Week article titled “Inside Pfizer’s Fight Against Counterfeit Drugs” talks about how big the pharmaceutical fraud and counterfeiting problem is. “According to company data, in 2010 authorities from53 countries seized 8.4 million tablets, capsules, and vials of counterfeit Pfizer drugs” (Business Week, Pg. 2). The problem is huge and not only costs […]
Our last post talked about why you should tap into the Deep Web in 2013. We now want to talk about what you can tap into on the Deep Web in 2013. Is there some project or task in your business that requires you or one of your employees to go from website to website […]
Read the 2014 post here. For 2013, it is important to tap into the rich resources existing in the Deep Web. The last time an extensive study was completed estimating the size of the Deep Web was in a 2001 study – a time when the internet consisted of only approximately three million different domains. […]
We’ve made it to #1 in our top 5 post countdown! BrightPlanet’s most popular Deep Web University content was our post on Structured vs. Unstructured Data. The post explains the difference between the two different kinds of data. It also talks about the problem with unstructured data and solutions for capturing it. Check out all […]
The #2 post in our 2012 Top Countdown of BrightPlanet’s most popular Deep Web University content is Deep Web Search and Dark Web Search – Similar Names; Major Differences! Posted on October 12, this post explains the difference between Deep Web search and Dark Web search. They are often confused but very different. Top 2012 […]
We’ve made it to #3 on our 2012 Top 5 countdown of BrightPlanet’s most popular Deep Web University content: What is a Deep Web Harvest? The post was posted on July 23 and explains what a Deep Web Harvester is, what it does, and why you need it. Top 2012 Post #3 Photo: jjandames
We are continuing our 2012 Top 5 Post Countdown featuring BrightPlanet’s most popular Deep Web University content from 2012. The #4 post on our top 5 is Exploiting Big Data from the Deep Web. Posted on July 17, this post introduces our Creating Intelligence from Big Data whitepaper and talks about why extracting data from […]