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Ansel Barrett

Ansel works as a contributing author at Octoparse, where he leverages his interest in coding, machine learning, and other AI technologies to provide valuable insights into web scraping.
213 posts

How to Scrape Websites at Large Scale

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There are challenges to scrape data from websites, especially web scraping at large scale. This article reveals the challenges and how we can deal with it.
2022-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read

Data Mining VS Data Extraction: What’s the Difference?

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You may be confused about data mining and data extraction though both of them are important in today's world. Read the article, and you can learn the details and differences between them.
2022-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 · 9 min read

10 Best RPA Tools to Improve Business Efficiency

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RPA tools enable businesses to automate mundane work and improve efficiency in a short period of time. In this article, you can learn the top 10 RPA tools to help your business.
2022-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read

Web Data Crawling & “Bag-Of-Words” for Data Mining

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Get your data with web crawling and use Bag of Words for data mining. This article guides you through the process of web crawler building and data mining.
2022-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 · 7 min read

How to Turn Raw Data into Information

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In this article, you can learn the definition of raw data and how important it is for your business. What's more, we also introduce the easy steps to turn raw data into information for your usage.
2022-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

Top 12 Data Extraction Tools in 2026

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Looking for some tools to extract data from web pages? This article will give you a full guide on what is data extraction, and the top 12 data extractors for your reference.
2022-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 · 8 min read

How to Become a Data Journalist

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What is data journalism? How to become a data journalist? Here are some guides for you to start.
2022-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 · 6 min read

Big Data Explained: 5 Steps to Collect Data

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There are a lot of data collection methods, but you may still feel quite confused. Here I will make a clarification of the general steps to collect big data and the best big data collecting tool.
2022-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

10 Must-have Skills You Need for Data Mining

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These are 10 essential skills you would need for a data mining project. Just pick one of them and get started!
2022-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

How to Scrape Data from Dynamic Websites in Real Time

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In this article, you can learn the easy steps on how to scrape dynamic data easily coding skills. Also, the reasons and importance to capture dynamic data.
2022-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read

Basic Introduction to Scraping Bot and Web Scraping API

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Crawling the web for relevant web data is fast becoming the norm among many businesses. To be at the top of this data game, you need a good scraper bot and web scraping API to make the data crawling and retrieval process easy.
2022-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read

Top 7 Data Scraping Tools in 2026

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Want to pick up a data scraping tool but have no idea about any of them? You can learn the top 7 data scraper from this article.
2022-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read