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Transparency in alt-data

New Finance Sector Survey Highlights Key Alt Data Integration Obstacles With 61% Citing Analysis Issues, And 53% Pointing To Sourcing Challenges

Learn how ‘data value chain augmentation’ is leading to higher ROI using razor-sharp data collection, and governance strategies, resulting in higher quality algorithmic output, insights, and investment decisions

Data Collection Expert

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Data Is Enabling eCommerce Localization Based On Regional Customs, And Preferences

Consumer tastes differ based on culture, and real-time trends. Retailers who are ‘speaking the local language’ are able to penetrate target markets overseas, creating loyal customer bases with high sales volume.

Ethical Data Collection Ten Commandments

“The 10 Commandments Of Ethical Data Collection” (From A Technical Standpoint)

Ethical data collection has very concrete manifestations in terms of how a network operates on a day-to-day basis. Here’s what you need to look out for

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Bright Data in practice

Data-Driven Products For Smarter Shopping Solutions

A conversation with Shoptagr’s Co-founder, CTO, and COO, Ronen Yuval-Hoch, uncovers the value his company gained from online data collection products

Jessica Cammerman

Brand Marketing Manager

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Best Ways to Protect Your Brand on Social Media

Brand impersonation and manipulation via social media channels is widespread. This is a complete guide to practically combating unwanted social media entities

Social Media Manager

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How Alternative Data Is Transforming The Investment And Financial Markets

Find out how you can use alt data as part of your future-facing business model for increased ROI using everything from analytical data models to AI-driven investing strategies

Managing Director, North America

How to Scrape with BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup Web Scraping Guide

Looking for a quick tutorial to help you get started web scraping using Python’s Beautiful Soup? You have come to the right place – read on and get started immediately.

Vivek Kumar Singh

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cURL: What It Is, And How You Can Use It For Web Scraping

cURL is a versatile command used by programmers for data collection and data transfers. But how can you leverage cURL for web scraping? This article will help you get started.

Director of Support

data driven marketing

A Beginner’s Guide To MarTech, And Data-Driven Marketing

Read this quick guide to learn what MarTech is, why data collection is crucial, and how marketers are leveraging consumer-driven data sets to increase ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)

Marketing Technologies Manager

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How Big Data Is Transforming Real Estate

The way in which we collect and use big data in the real estate industry, can help or harm professionals in terms of understanding the market and consumer behavior.

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User-Agents For Web Scraping 101

Using the correct user agent when performing data scraping tasks is crucial to your success in collecting your target data while avoiding being blocked. This is the only guide you will need to get started.

Josh Vanderwillik

Product Manager

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Why Bright Data

Your Data Won’t Serve You For Long If It Was Collected Unethically

This article will give you practical tools and guidelines so your company can build solid data foundations and not a house of cards.