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Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the use of alternative data sources in investment decision making in hedge funds, investment banks, and private equity firms.

Web scraping can look deceptively easy these days. There are numerous open-source libraries/frameworks, visual scraping tools, and data extraction tools that make it very easy to scrape data from a website.

Unbeknownst to many, there is a data revolution happening in finance.
In their never ending search for alpha hedge funds and investment banks are increasingly turning to new alternative sources of data to give them an informational edge over the market.

Throughout the history of the financial markets information has been power.

Over the last couple weeks, GDPR has brought data protection center stage. What was once a fringe concern for most businesses overnight became a burning problem that needed to be solved immediately.

One negative review can cost your business up to 22% of its prospects. This was one of the sobering findings in a study highlighted on Moz last year.

Computers are great at repetitive tasks. They don't get distracted, bored, or tired.

In just the US alone, there were 27 million individuals running or starting a new business in 2015.

During the 2016 Collision Conference held in New Orleans, Zyte Content Strategist Cecilia Haynes had the opportunity to interview the brains and the brawn behind Up Hail, the rideshare comparison app.

Web data is a bit like the Matrix. It’s all around us, but not everyone knows how to use it meaningfully.

We are at a point in the digital age where corruption is increasingly difficult to hide. Information leaks are abundant and shocking.