Machine Intelligence, which tool for which usage ?

It’s starting to be complex to select a Machine Intelligence solution. Not only because of the difficulty to estimate usage fees, but mostly because of the huge number of targeted intelligence types, behind these technologies. Machine Learning ? Data Capture ? Natural Language ? Image Recognition ? Many different application fields, and even worst, many different providers. Indeed, many many companies, startups and big ones, propose everyday their additional…

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Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3

Google has just launched it’s latest version of reCAPTCHA, which changes the way it tests for and challenges bots (and humans). Instead of challenging humans with a CAPTCHA, it assigns visitors a score for how suspicious an interaction is and eliminating the need to interrupt users. It definitivelly affects many bots, but at Scrapy Ninja, we already developped counter measures, and we do continue to handle 3.000 queries per…

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The Whys and Hows of Web Scraping – A Lethal Weapon in Your Data Arsenal

Simply put, web scraping is the process of the extracting certain data fields from target websites in an automated manner to deliver data sets in clean and ready-to-use format. A web crawling program will automatically load multiple web pages from the website one by one, and extract data, as per the requirements. It can be either custom built for a specific website or can be configured to work with…

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Web Scraping in Python using Scrapy

Introduction The explosion of the internet has been a boon for data enthusiasts. The variety and quantity of data that is available today through the internet is like a treasure trove of secrets and mysteries waiting to be solved. For example, you are planning to travel – how about scraping a few travel recommendation sites, pull out comments about various do to things and see which property is getting a…

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16 Real life examples of data scraping for business

Did you notice it? Did you take note of how the bar keeps rising higher and higher when it comes to your business standing out? Years ago, when there were only a few companies available in a particular niche, it wasn’t too difficult for each one to carve out a specific segment of the market as a form of differentiation. But these days, the market is crowded. With more…

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