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Toys ”R” Us to StumbleUpon – Casualties of Changing Times

Toys ”R” Us to StumbleUpon – Casualties of Changing Times

Toys “R” Us, a company that invokes fond memories in multiple generations recently closed its doors for good. Generations of kids grew up with the iconic Toys “R” Us stores and have vivid memories of ecstasy when their parents bought a toy they wanted or feelings of “the world has ended” if their parents felt […]

How Many Products Does Amazon Sell Worldwide – January 2018

How Many Products Does Amazon Sell Worldwide – January 2018

How Many Products Does Amazon Sell Worldwide in 2018? Amazon lists more than 3 billion products across 11 marketplaces worldwide. We took a look at the number of products Amazon lists online for more than its 300 million customers. Today, Amazon U.S. has the highest number of products – 564 million. Amazon’s product selection has expanded […]

Top Fast Food Chains in the US – Numbers and Statewide Count Data

Top Fast Food Chains in the US – Numbers and Statewide Count Data

Fast food is one of the largest industries in the food and restaurant sectors. To gain some insights we looked into the number of fast food chains located throughout the U.S by state, opening hours and amenities provided. Check out our blog post to see which fast food chains are at the top regarding the highest number of stores, customer service, and state.

Unicorn jobs – Who’s hiring – Analysis of US jobs by unicorn startups

Unicorn jobs – Who’s hiring – Analysis of US jobs by unicorn startups

We looked into the available unicorn job openings across cities in the U.S.  The unicorns with the highest number of jobs available: Uber, AbbVie, and WeWork compose of nearly half (49%) of the total jobs available. From the 37 unicorns taken for analysis, only 12 (32%) of them have more than a hundred available job postings. […]

Analyzing Top Online Brands in the Apparel Industry

Analyzing Top Online Brands in the Apparel Industry

To gain some insights into the top online brands in fashion and clothing stores, we analyzed about 45k products from some of the top brands with an online store – Nike, Ralph Lauren, Gap (Old Navy, Banana Republic) and Levi Strauss Top Online Brands – Gender vs. Number of Products Looking at the number of […]

Dark Data, Apple and HBO

Dark Data, Apple and HBO

Apple recently acquired Lattice Data for $200 million. Lattice Data specializes in trying to make sense of “Dark Data” and Apple thought this space was valuable enough to spend 200 million. Apple has picked up Lattice Data, a company that applies an AI-enabled inference engine to take unstructured, “dark” data and turn it into structured (and […]

Sports Data – The Rise of Big Data and Analytics

Sports Data – The Rise of Big Data and Analytics

The global sports market is huge with its total revenue projected to be around 90 billion dollars in 2017. In sports big data and web scraping is one of the sectors in which data analytics has demonstrated great value and has a great potential with major professional sports teams putting them to use. It is […]

Data Extraction Services – an essential guide and checklist

Data Extraction Services – an essential guide and checklist

Data is everywhere but most of it is unusable because it is not in a format that can be used. Data extraction services help tap the vast data resources available online or within internal sources and extract the data so that it can be used to benefit the business. This post is a data extraction services […]

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