WEB SCRAPING CAN SUPERCHARGE YOUR DATA ANALYTICS

Web scraping is the science and art of extracting (unstructured) data from web pages, converting these to structured data (think data frames) and extract vital insights and visualization from these data. Web scraping can offer several professional and personal advantages. Some of the professional advantages you and your organization can get from web scraping include:

Price Monitoring: You can scrape product prices from a variety of sources including Amazon

Customer Analytics

Business Intelligence

Social Media Insights: Dive into social media chatter and identify upcoming trends

Potential Lead Generation

Web scraping can also help you personally (and professionally) by Make Data-Driven Decisions on Critical Issues: For instance, web scraping is a powerful way of assessing real-estate trends in terms of prices and changes

Inform Financial Decision Making Derive Geolocational Insights In spite of its many advantages, there are legal and ethical issues related to web scraping. Here is a brief lowdown on what web scraping is and some of the legal/ethical issues associated with it:

A LOWDOWN ON WEB SCRAPING