Comments on: Combining survey data with scraped data to tell a story https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/combining-survey-data-with-scraped-data-to-tell-a-story/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: denko https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/combining-survey-data-with-scraped-data-to-tell-a-story/#comment-862 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:23:25 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218134#comment-862 OK, I looked into the Yahoo Finance API. It covers some data, like stock prices and daily trade volume. Not the kind of thing I need, which is descriptive data about particular companies – number of employees, market cap, location, revenue, stuff like that. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

]]> By: denko https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/combining-survey-data-with-scraped-data-to-tell-a-story/#comment-861 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:50:05 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218134#comment-861 Yes, in the future I might want to do that, as you say. I’ll look into learning how to access the data via the API. Thanks for the tip.

Dan

]]> By: denko https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/combining-survey-data-with-scraped-data-to-tell-a-story/#comment-860 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:47:47 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218134#comment-860 Yes, in the future I might want to do that, as you say. Always good to learn something new. I’ll look into the API.

Dan

]]> By: KarenP. https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/combining-survey-data-with-scraped-data-to-tell-a-story/#comment-859 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:11:16 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218134#comment-859 “What drives brand awareness? It’s partly how much the company spends to promote itself. But it’s mostly size, usually measured as number of employees, market capitalization or annual revenue.”

–Can you find correlations between company size and how much the company spends to promote itself? e.g. Does IBM (the largest) spend less on marketing than, say, Deloitte? Because that would open other all sorts of other stories.

]]> By: pguardiario https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/combining-survey-data-with-scraped-data-to-tell-a-story/#comment-858 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:49:01 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218134#comment-858 Yahoo FInance provides APIs to access their data. They do this to prevent you from wasting your time and bandwidth (as well as their own.) In the future you might try to discover if the data has already been made publicly available before resorting to scraping.

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