web crawling

The (albeit lame) Metaphor Most people wonder what’s the significance of the bread and flour when talking about data. To the baker, flour is the primary ingredient of bread. You don’t taste the flour, but the gluten helps the dough to expand and rise, giving bread its unique

Now that web crawling can retrieve information from previously inaccessible sources, what’s next for data? Access to social media posts is known to provide a significant advantage to companies. Social media, raw or processed, can provide mainly two classes of data which are useful for different industries: Sentiment data: