As two typical buzzwords related to data science, data mining and data extraction confuse a lot of people. Data mining is often misunderstood as extracting and obtaining data, but it is actually way more complicated than that. In this post, let’s find out the difference between data mining and data extraction. 

Table of contents

• What is Data Mining?
• What Can Data Mining Do?
• Some Use Cases of Data…

There is a lot of data presented in a table format inside the web pages. However, it could be quite difficult when you try to store the data into local computers for later access. The problem would be that the data is embedded inside the HTML which is unavailable to download in a structured format like CSV. Web scraping is the easiest way to obtain the data into your local computer.

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To extract data from websites, you can take advantage of data extraction tools like Octoparse. These tools can pull data from websites automatically and save them into many formats such as Excel, JSON, CSV, HTML, or to your own database via APIs. It only takes a few minutes to extract thousands of lines of data, and the best part is…

Web scraping, also known as web harvesting and  web data extraction, basically refers to collecting data from websites via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or through web browsers. 

How does web scraping work?

Generally, web scraping involves three steps: 

• first, we send a GET request to the server and we will receive a response in a form of web…

Every industry in the world is moving towards data-driven decision making, then one of the most popular and …

In the last couple of years, real estate companies have shifted their focus to the digital world, and now almost all investments have an online system showing what apartments are available. This is very convenient for their potential clients, as they can easily become familiar with the apartments on offer. Things become interesting when all available data is monitored on a weekly basis, and sales progress is analysed.

Why is this so important? As sales…

With all that has been not going on in the Ning platform sphere, I have been teaching myself the art and science of data scraping.  I posted the following on the Creators site last week.

Megaload of Ning Tips, Tricks and Hacks (over 200+)

First, I went to my…