What does the fight against sex trafficking, child abuse, cyberbullying and political disinformation have in common? The answer is right in front of and all around us: publicly available web data.

In the world of Big Data, there's a lot of talk about unstructured data -- after all, "variety" is one of the three Vs. Often these discussions dwell on log file data, sensor output or media content.

Gunja Gargeshwari is the Chief Revenue Officer for Bright Data, an industry-leading web data platform used by many Fortune 500 companies. Public web data is the driving force behind a complete ...

Public web data is crucial for ecommerce businesses to track competitors, stay on top of consumer trends and make smarter, industry-specific decisions. With web scraping approaches tailored to their ...

Have you ever wondered how much untapped potential lies in the vast amounts of data freely available on the web? From government statistics to industry trends and global datasets, the internet is a ...

Web data—it’s the world’s largest untapped source of data. Research firm Opimas speaks of the sweeping power of web data, as it “comprises a valuable portion of alternative datasets revolutionizing ...

Threat intelligence plays a key role in the safety and security of any organization’s online activity, and it plays a determining factor in upholding the integrity of their internal infrastructure.

This article explains what regex (or regular expressions) is and how to get started using it with web crawlers, plus some interesting real-world use cases. One technology skill that is too-often ...

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...