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As if beating everyone taking second place in our office’s March Madness bracket pool isn’t good enough, last Saturday I had another reason to celebrate. This is Jamie Martin writing to you. I’m a Data Acquisition Engineer at BrightPlanet. My alma mater, Augustana University, made school history by winning its first ever NCAA Division II National […]
The advancement in hardware, cloud computing, and more efficient database and warehousing solutions has allowed for a new way of thinking in data analysis, particularly when it comes to data collection. The old way of thinking that revolves around the concept of sample size, often described as ‘n’, is a thing of the past. Instead […]
With over 320 million monthly active users, Twitter continues to be a rich and vast resource for data on the Web. Twitter provides direct access to Tweets and user data in a number of ways. What can you actually collect from Twitter and how can it be used? In this post, we focus on uncovering […]
Not using anonymization when accessing your competitor’s Web pages can turn you into competitive intelligence. In our last post, we covered how this happens. The question we didn’t answer is how anonymizing systems work. In the following technical post, we’ll uncover how anonymizing systems, including BrightPlanet’s, keep you anonymous on the Internet.
Companies big and small seek competitive intelligence on the biggest threats to their business. Competitive intelligence collection typically involves harvesting large amounts of unstructured data from competitor’s websites. But what most collectors of competitive intelligence don’t know, is that by doing this, you yourself become competitive intelligence. In today’s post, we uncover the importance of […]
“Is this the Deep Web or Surface Web?” – We get asked this seemingly simple question often by customers and curious learners interested in our harvesting technology and the Deep Web in general. The basic question seems pretty straightforward but like all things on the Internet, there’s a very gray area that exists in even […]
2016 is underway and the concept that still dominates the tech world is Big Data. The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed executives and found that an estimated 60% of executives report generating revenue from their Big Data initiatives. It’s clear that the concept of Big Data is here to stay, but we anticipate a few changes in […]
For years, students sat through statistics courses with no real direction. There wasn’t a clear-cut benefit to the data analysis. That’s no longer the case. Statistical thinking helps businesses derive insights and make data-based decisions. It allows departments to predict future trends and mitigate risk. And along with our technology partner Rosoka, our team at […]
Earlier this month, BrightPlanet’s Vice President of Business Development, Tyson Johnson, was invited to be a panelist at Citibank’s Big Data event in New York. The event brought together 50 of the world’s leading hedge funds with technology and Big Data experts from across a wide array of industries. In conjunction with the event, Citibank released […]
The Internet is infinite. It’s difficult to grasp the sheer amount of knowledge available online. Which means there’s an endless amount of information waiting for you to harvest and use for your business. But how do you make sense of the unlimited stream of information online? How do you even know where to start and […]