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Remember that time when you were browsing through a blog online and that beautiful dress you have been coveting for months suddenly popped up in one of the corners of the screen? How could you possibility resist? You just had to purchase it! ‘What a coincidence!’, you would wonder. It’s actually smart business. Predictive analytics, the new holy-grail in town, is a rather clever way to boost your business. It analyses the data obtained from buyer preferences and past purchasi

Have you seen the latest season of the Silicon Valley series ? In the series, Erlich Blachman is asking Jian Yang to scrape the internet to train his classifier for a food app. He literally asked Jian to do it however, Jian refused and his food discovery app idea was crushed. The moral of the story is, if you want data scraping to train your classifier, better contact someone like Datahut. Be smart and don’t be like Erlich Blachman. Machine learning is a member of the famil

Product assortment is a topic that a lot of retailers don’t pay attention to. Here is a blog post that explains why it is relevant and how you can get it. The constant question that sticks in the mind of a retailer is that “how to determine the product to offer for sale?” The idea of keeping huge stocks of every product doesn’t work anymore, one needs to be smart with such choices now. You should know what the consumer wants? What factors will give you a competitive advantage

Who doesn’t love to play detective? The thrill of sneaking around in the enemy territory and getting what you need right under the enemy’s nose; there is a certain fun to it, isn’t it? Although it might be a little late to join secret services, spying on your competitor might not be the worst idea in the world, especially if you are trying to one-up them and boost your sales. One clever way to do it is through competitive intelligence. Boosting ROI is on the top of the priori

Recruiting tech talent is a very tough job. Automating a major portion of the recruiting process can save HR teams ton of time and money. Have you ever pondered about the work of a Human Resource Manager? One of the most time consuming job that an HR goes through is the long, lengthy, extended task of selecting candidates. Today in this time and age when the process of searching a potential candidate for a job has become digital in its nature and form, it doesn’t necessarily

You might have seen the video of iPhone product launch by Steve Jobs. It was one of the most successful launches ever. The iPhone 3G sold over a million units on its launch weekend and iPhone 4 made a new record as 1.7 million units were sold within the first 3 days! Those certainly are some great numbers. There were a lot of mobile phones launched before and after iPhone, but have you ever thought why iPhone was more successful than the rest? That is because Steve Jobs had

You must have come across free web scraping tools or browser plugins. Have you ever thought how they are managing to give you these free web scraping tools for free when they have costs in developing, maintaining and running these things? Pricing is one of the most common objections you’ll hear from a potential buyer. People are naturally attracted to products that are cheaper. This psychology is used by companies to trick people into buying products that are priced cheaper b

The internet has changed the way people buy and sell things. For brands, this is an opportunity and a problem at the same time. The biggest problem of any brand is getting their product in the hands of users. Websites like Amazon & eBay helped solve this major distribution problem. However, it created some other problems for the brands. Here are some of those problems and how to solve them. How do you track sellers online? Brands are selling their products in multiple marke

Nearly 90% of so called genuine Apple products sold online are fake. How do you identify counterfeits online using data and save the reputation of your brand? Apple says it has been buying Apple chargers and cables labeled as genuine on Amazon.com and has found most of them to be counterfeit. Apple filed a lawsuit against a New Jersey company on Monday over what Apple says are counterfeit chargers and cables for its products that were sold on Amazon. Some sources on the we

Web Scraping with Python is a popular subject around data science enthusiasts. Here is a piece of content aimed at beginners who want to learn Web Scraping with Python lxml library. What is lxml? lxml is the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for processing XML and HTML in Python programming language. lxml is a reference to the XML toolkit in a pythonic way which is internally being bound with two specific libraries of  C language, libxml2 , and libxslt .  lxml is un

Amazon with a $358 billion market cap is one of the most successful online retailers. Online retailing business has huge potential, however it is also very competitive. A lot of companies came and vanished into thin air. Giants like Amazon and startups from the garage are fighting fiercely for the biggest piece of the market. A strategy powered by real and factual information about your competitors is the difference between your success and failure. Amazon is an example  wi

XPath is a language for finding information in structured documents like XML or HTML. You can say that XPath is (sort of) SQL for XML or HTML files. XPath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML or HTML document. To understand XPath we must be clear about elements and nodes which are the building blocks of XML and HTML. Let’s talk about them. Here is an example element in an HTML document:    <a class=”hyperlink” href=http://www.google.com>google</a>

Buying a home is one of the decisions of a lifetime and people don’t take it lightly. According to a survey conducted by SurveyMonkey – 21% people made an offer on a house without ever having seen it in person . The real estate brokers should have an understanding of what people really want to grab the biggest slice of the pie. The real estate market is still growing and technology is disrupting this industry. Investors are pouring millions of dollars into real estate start

When starting a technology company, understanding the needs of the market can be the difference between success and failure. The best way to understand whether you have a viable business idea is through market research. When it comes to market research for your product, most people trust their instinct rather the data. This happens because you are excited about the product. Under stress and excitement, the hormones will force you to trust the instinct rather than the logic. G

Datahut is on a mission to make the web scraping painless, affordable and super comfortable. Our focus is primarily on non-technical customers or companies who do not know how to go about data extraction and processing. We will take care of all the technicalities involved and just deliver clean, structured and ready to use data. We want to democratize data and make it more accessible and useful to people. Any company, from big blue chip corporations to the tiniest start-up