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Top Fast Food Chains in the US – Numbers and Statewide Count Data

Top Fast Food Chains in the US – Numbers and Statewide Count Data

Fast food is one of the largest industries in the food and restaurant sectors. To gain some insights we looked into the number of fast food chains located throughout the U.S by state, opening hours and amenities provided. Check out our blog post to see which fast food chains are at the top regarding the highest number of stores, customer service, and state.

Unicorn jobs – Who’s hiring – Analysis of US jobs by unicorn startups

Unicorn jobs – Who’s hiring – Analysis of US jobs by unicorn startups

We looked into the available unicorn job openings across cities in the U.S.  The unicorns with the highest number of jobs available: Uber, AbbVie, and WeWork compose of nearly half (49%) of the total jobs available. From the 37 unicorns taken for analysis, only 12 (32%) of them have more than a hundred available job postings. […]

How can Web Scraping help Analysts in Venture Capital Firms

How can Web Scraping help Analysts in Venture Capital Firms

An analyst in a typical VC firm spends most of their time trying to find deals for their firm by scanning through a pile of blogs, news websites, start-up listings, and portals manually for identifying new opportunities, researching about those startups and then emailing or calling them. This research would seem impressive in the early […]

Analyzing Top Online Brands in the Apparel Industry

Analyzing Top Online Brands in the Apparel Industry

To gain some insights into the top online brands in fashion and clothing stores, we analyzed about 45k products from some of the top brands with an online store – Nike, Ralph Lauren, Gap (Old Navy, Banana Republic) and Levi Strauss Top Online Brands – Gender vs. Number of Products Looking at the number of […]

Dark Data, Apple and HBO

Dark Data, Apple and HBO

Apple recently acquired Lattice Data for $200 million. Lattice Data specializes in trying to make sense of “Dark Data” and Apple thought this space was valuable enough to spend 200 million. Apple has picked up Lattice Data, a company that applies an AI-enabled inference engine to take unstructured, “dark” data and turn it into structured (and […]

Sports Data – The Rise of Big Data and Analytics

Sports Data – The Rise of Big Data and Analytics

The global sports market is huge with its total revenue projected to be around 90 billion dollars in 2017. In sports big data and web scraping is one of the sectors in which data analytics has demonstrated great value and has a great potential with major professional sports teams putting them to use. It is […]

Data Extraction Services – an essential guide and checklist

Data Extraction Services – an essential guide and checklist

Data is everywhere but most of it is unusable because it is not in a format that can be used. Data extraction services help tap the vast data resources available online or within internal sources and extract the data so that it can be used to benefit the business. This post is a data extraction services […]

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