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A blog for people & companies looking to make a big business impact with data acquired using web scraping and web crawling. Learn the best practices, business use cases, legality, and how you can do your job better with data.
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Y Combinator 2025: How AI is Reshaping Startups and Markets
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How AI and Alternative Data will Influence Future Investment Research?
Investment research is basically the art and process of studying and evaluating the performance of stocks, shares, markets, and industries. The investment research and planning market faced seismic shifts every now and then. This calls for improving the process with the transforming technologies and incorporating the same in the regular operations. Due to the abundance of information and data available, market players wish to facilitate investment decisions using the same. Th
Srishti Saha
Aug 4, 20184 min read
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Hedge Funds are Relying on Alternative Data Insights to Gain an Investing Edge
The thing about data that we all know is that it is growing at a rate that no human, organization or machine can process individually. However, what a lot of us tend to forget is that while high quality or expensive data does not guarantee successful strategies, bad data does ensure failure at the operational level. Having that said, industries across the globe are developing algorithms to break this data down into actionable insights. Finance has seen a growing application o

Bhagyeshwari Chauhan
May 27, 20184 min read
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Why Data Scraping is the Next Frontier in Battle for Investment Returns
There is a reason why investment firms exalt the importance of data scraping. There was a time when a money manager would assess sales performances by dispatching a junior grunt to the local store. Today, it is possible that a hedge fund may monitor your emails for hints on how Amazon , the world’s largest online retailer , would perform in the next holiday season. That’s the power of data scraping in e-commerce today! Asset managers seek the investment edge which could poten

Tony Paul
Aug 30, 20173 min read
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How Alternative Data is the New Financial Data for Industry Investors and Hedge Funds
Information has been the decision driver for investors, and the right kind of information which provides an investor an edge is desirable. But looking at the information gathered over time, the nature of this information has evolved. Until now, the standard practice to predict the health of a stock occurred using traditional financial data such as stock price history. However, there is a new form of data which has infused a renewed interest in investors. Turns out, investors
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Aug 3, 20172 min read
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The Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Alternative Data
Data. This is perhaps the most widely used buzzword in the business world today. It is also something no company can efficiently function without. If you happen to be the head of your own firm, you will realize that you spend the better part of your day dealing with data. Data for business comes in all shapes and sizes. Right from historical sales record to the feedback your consumer give, it’s all important information capable of actionable insights. While your BI program

Tony Paul
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