How Web Scraping and Data Mining Work Together to Drive Business Insights
Introduction Organizations today are operating in a data-rich world. Nevertheless, raw data alone cannot raise operations or revenue without the use of two complementary elements, which must be employed by organizations in the techniques of web scraping and data mining. These two complementary processes extract information and discover actionable data that lead to strategic decisions. 3i Data Scraping can help organizations leverage both processes. Understanding how the two processes relate to each other can be revolutionary in your intelligence strategy. Understanding Web Scraping: The Foundation of Data Collection Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites. With data extracted automatically, there are no extended hours of manual collection, yet the process is accurate. What is Web Scraping Software? Web scraping software navigates website data like a person would. However, it does it quicker and with more accuracy. The software searches for specific information, a...