30 Ways to Grow Your Business with Web Scraping

It’s no secret that data is growing fast. A study by IDC titled  Data Age 2025  predicts that worldwide data creation will grow to an enormous 163 zettabytes (ZB) by 2025. And if this does not give you the picture of how fast data grows,  according to IBM , we create  2.5 quintillion bytes  of data a day and 90 percent of the world’s data (that’s 90 percent of all the data  ever  created) had been  created in the last two years  (for the year 2016) . Just when we are experiencing such a massive explosion of data, have you ever thought about how  data can be used to benefit your business or work role? Embracing Big Data may sound complicated but it need not be.  Web scraping  (aka. web crawling, web data extraction, web harvesting, screen scraping, etc) is a technique used for acquiring large amounts of data from the web, such as social media, news portals, government reports or forums and turn it into...