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Data is the modern engine to every process, businesses increasingly depend on it. Most companies collect internal information accumulated in the corporate databases, CRMs, ERP systems, and other sources, however, much more data lies outside the company. It’s open data, generated every minute, and exponentially growing in scope. Consequently, the number of sources from which you can extract data increases at an overwhelming pace as well. We’ve collected and listed some of the most useful free open data sources to make our readers’ life easier. Feel free to use them.

In the world of business, big data is the most important thing to make a proper and efficient business decision. And when we would like to represent this data in graphical format to communicate it clearly and efficiently, data visualization comes into play. In this article, we’ll talk about Tableau, and how it can help us in data visualization.

There is a great amount of information provided in PDF format on the Internet. PDFs are used as an alternative for paper-based documents. However, the content in PDF format is unstructured, so, downloading and scraping hundreds of PDF files manually is time-consuming and rather exhausting. In this article, we’ll explore the process of downloading data from PDF files with the help of Python and its packages.

Web scraping is more than important to stay competitive in the world of eCommerce. Software solutions for web data extraction are highly popular nowadays. Those who are technically skilled and have pretty good knowledge of programming create henady tools themselves. But even if you are a newbie, there are various easy-to-use tools and useful sources that may help you with self-service scraping. In this article, we’re going to reveal the methods used for eCommerce website project download and help you choose the one for your project.

The real estate market is one of the most dynamic fields, where data scraping plays its major role not only for real estate business owners and agencies but also for regular customers. The leading real estate marketplace of the present-day is Zillow and scraping it can be extremely beneficial. There are several paid Zillow data scrapers in the market that you can buy and use. But, if you have some coding skills and would like to build your own scraper, go on reading to learn how to download data from Zillow and use it.