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Value of anonymized user trend data
I was wondering how to find out how much the user data is worth for a database similar to Foursquare's? I'm not looking to sell personal user information or email addresses, but more along the lines ...
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Legal issues around selling anonymised data?
I'm thinking of starting a business. It would be a website that would act much like a social-bookmarking site. It would be funded by selling data about websites and this data would be collected from ...
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There are so many things to measure — what's the best way to keep track of it all?
As a startup, we have to measure web analytics, funnel metrics, conversions, competition trackers, ROI on campaigns, etc. There's lots to keep track of and a lot of different software (google ...
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Can an innovative data visualization be patented or protected in some way?
I'm working on developing a product in the US with many potential competitors. None of the current products deals very well with analysis once the data is collected. I have several unexplored data ...
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Collect usage metrics of software
What would be the best way to collect usage metrics of a SaaS software?
I want to collect something like logins, clicks and time spent in my software.
Are there existing services out there that allow ...
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Is security a major concern with Enterprise grade cloud storage?
In your opinion or experience, is security the biggest concern when considering offsite cloud storage? I am curious if vendors like box.net offer their cloud solutions with the intention that ...
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Are there any existing Business Intelligence solutions that are free or inexpensive?
Are there any existing Business Intelligence solutions that are free or inexpensive? For 1-3 users?
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Using mock data until real users show up
I just beta launched my website and right now there is only one user signed up for my service (it's only been a day and I'm not marketing it yet). It is highly data driven so without much context, ...
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Do you have a “data-mining” guy?
Right now I'm in the process of bootstrapping a start-up, so I and my co-founder are working pretty long hours. My only source of new information seems to be Hacker News at the moment, but honestly, ...
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Does anyone know where to get price data for older comics?
I run a tiny startup that lets you organize and track info about your comic book collection.
I would like to add price data to the comics in the database. I think
this would be a great feature for ...
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Hotel booking data
Where do the many hotel booking websites get their hotel data? ie. # of free rooms within certain dates, price per night, etc.
Is it possible to get the data somewhere and handle booking myself, ...
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Where to find Market Data?
Is there a particular place with, or a particular technique to use for finding different kinds of market data?
For instance, I want to look up what research has been done on internal communications ...
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Where to find data to determine talent pool in a location
Good evening
I'm part of a startup thats looking to move to an area with a decent talent pool of IT professionals, and after surfing the morass that is Stats Canada, I wonder if anyone would know ...
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How much and where is information to make a graph of money movement
I'm interested in compiling data about where money is moving -- essentially what businesses are paying other businesses and for what. This is to make a product that analyzes this data and helps users ...
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Sources of industry and benchmark information (free or inexpensive) [closed]
What are some of the best free (or almost free) sources of updated and historical industry data, analysis, and comparative benchmark information?
For example: Restaruant industry average food and ...
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How does Hubspot get Google statistics?
Put your website into Website Grader. The free report they come back with has:
Google pagerank
Google indexed pages
Last Google crawl date
Traffic rank (from Alexa)
Inbound links (matches neither ...
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News Archives for commercial use [closed]
I am looking to mine the data from older news articles for my startup.
One way i can think of is to crawl financial websites and extract the information i need.
It can be a hard and also not without ...
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Affordable financial data for commercial use
Does anyone know where we can get affordable financial data? eg: ticker symbols, realtime quotes...
I know we could probably mine Yahoo Finance, but the data needs to be licensed for commercial use.
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New Site … How do I get New Members?
I remember awhile back watching a video where either David Heinemeier or Kevin Rose started about how crucial it is to start with live data for a new web app. Where's the best place to purchase up to ...
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Efficiency of demand prediction software
I have an activity, which is very simple in conceptual sense:
Exploration of possible demand and extraction of interesting products.
Product is considered "interesting", if it seems to be ...
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Data aggregation from hundreds of different websites into one
what would the process be for aggregating data from hundreds of websites into a master database? I would then do calculations on the master data base, then resell.
Thank you.
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Building a business off of data
I have a collection of tools that collect data. I have heard of businesses selling data. I would like to be able to do something like this. However, I have no idea what a business model around data ...
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Analyse custom data: Business Intelligence Tools vs Programming Custom Tool
I wanted to know what you would recommend for analyzing data in this scenario:
We have a web application that requires users to register etc in order to use it. For our further decisions on what to ...
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Tapping into somebody else's product data
I have a client who got 3rd party software(3PS). I wrote module that reads data from their database and does reporting, etc.
Question #1:Is that legal to read THEIR data from 3rd party software?
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Movie/song like IMDB [closed]
How to build a movie/songs database similar to IMDB for commercial use without purchasing it from somewhere?
The databases like IMDB and Musicbrainz are not open for commercial use.
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From software developer to a Data Analyst role? - Good or Not? [closed]
I'm a software developer with around 5 yrs of work experience in Java/J2EE technologies. I have an offer for a new project in my company where the work would be of Data Analysis. Basically we would be ...
