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Dive into the big data area, and check out the most cutting-edge tools, open data sources, and big data usage strategies.
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Top 8 RPA Tools Introduction | Robotic Process Automation | RPA
Ansel Barrett With more and more companies entering the big data era, dealing with repetitive processes has severely hindered efficiency, process automation has been an urgent need. This article will show you how to choose RPA tools for your business by comparing the key features of today's top-level RPA tools.
2021-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
Scraping the Fortune 500 Company Job Boards Step by Step
Abigail Jones The article answers how to build a job board from scratch with a web scraping tool and how job board business model succeeds.
2021-01-30T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
88 Resources & Tools to Become a Data Scientist
Ansel Barrett We have collected the resources and tools to help you become a data scientist, including online learning courses, certification, books, data extractors, data analytics and reporting tools and data science competitions.
2021-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
Top 9 Data Visualization Tools for Non-developers
Ansel Barrett Looking for a handy data visualization tool or free alternatives to Tableau? Let's see if any of these top 9 data visualization tools fit your needs.
2021-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
80 Best Data Science Books That Are Worth Reading
Abigail Jones This article put together 80 data science books for people in data science industry or want to be a data scientist. How about start your book reading to enter the field!
2021-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 · 12 min read
How Web Scraping Works for Content Aggregation
Abigail Jones In this article, I will show you what is content aggregation/curation, what you can benefit from it and how web scraping can help you create this content aggregator.
2021-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
Things You Must Know About Data Harvesting & Data Mining
Ansel Barrett Data harvesting and data mining is totally different and getting the data is only the first part of data mining. In fact, there are more applications in data mining: regression, clustering, anomaly detection and associative learning.
2021-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read
A Website Copier: Save Web Pages Offline
Ansel Barrett A website copier is a tool for copying web pages onto your computer for offline viewing. Let's get an idea of how it works.
2021-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
Best Web Crawler Services/Companies
Abigail Jones Web crawling service or web crawler is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. These web crawler services or companies can help you get web data easier.
2021-01-23T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
5 Essential Data Mining Skills for Recruiters
Ansel Barrett I summarized the 5 essential skills for any recruiters to better utilize aggregated data from the web and successfully recruit the perfect candidate through analyzing the mined data. I will show you step by step how to get the data needed and analyze it.
2021-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read
10 Simple Excel Functions for Data Analysis
Ansel Barrett Excel is one of the must-have data analysis tools in the market. To this day it provides more than 450 functions, but actually knowing how to use a few of them would be sufficient in most cases. In this article, I compiled 10 easy but widely used functions to facilitate data analysis in Excel. Feel free to try them out!
2020-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 · 4 min read
What is Alternative Data and How Can You Use It?
Ansel Barrett Alternative data is often perceived as big data or “exhaust data” since its large scale and complex metrics. These data sets are normally less accessible and structured than tradition data which can be easily handled by Excel. Alternative data is primarily adopted in hedge funds and other financial industries. Web scraping automates the process of data extraction that allows you to scrape the data as the way you want
2019-08-02T00:00:00+00:00 · 5 min read