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The Importance of Data in Journalism

Since 2021 has come to a close, we thought it apt to look back at the year one last time […]

Grepsr’s 2021 — A Year in Review

Our growth and achievements of the past year, and reasons to get excited in 2022

Impact of Shipping Data in the Shipping Industry

Before the pandemic, the global supply chain relied on predictable inventory flows. There was high schedule reliability, which meant the […]

Applications of POI (Point of Interest) Data in Business

Point of Interest (POI) data, or geographic data, is often overlooked by most businesses. In this article, we explore the […]

Data Analysis: Five Steps to Superior Data

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various methods, techniques, and essential steps to ensure […]

Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analysis Methods

Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis Methods

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various methods, techniques, and essential steps to ensure […]

Data Analysis: Most Used Techniques

This is one piece of a three-part series that looks at the various methods, techniques, and essential steps to superior […]

Applications of Data Normalization in Retail & Ecommerce

From improving customer experience to establishing brand authority, data normalization has wide-ranging applications in retail and ecommerce.

A Smarter MO for Data-Driven Businesses

Vary they might in their approach to business, yet a retail giant and an automobile brand agree on one thing. […]

Business Data Analytics — Why Enterprises Need It

Objectivity vs subjectivity The stories we hear as children have a way of mirroring the realities of everyday existence, unlike […]

Perfecting the 1:10:100 Rule in Data Quality

The price businesses pay every year owing to poor data quality is staggering, to say the least. A research carried […]

Data Visualization Is Critical to Your Business — Here Are 5 Reasons Why

Data visualization is a powerful tool. When done correctly, it is a much more elegant method of explaining even complex […]

What is Data Normalization and Why Enterprises Need it

In the current era of big data, every successful business collects and analyzes vast amounts of data on a daily […]

Benefits of Using Web Scraping to Extract Airfare Data from OTAs

Use web scraping to extract airfare data from OTAs and airlines’ websites to give your customers the best possible start […]

Legality of Web Scraping — An Overview

Ever since the invention of the world wide web, web scraping has been one of its most integral facets. It […]

Web scraping from alternate data sources

Data Scraping from Alternate Sources — PDF, XML & JSON

An unconventional format — PDF, XML or JSON — is just as important a data source as a web page.

Benefits of High Quality Data to Any Data-Driven Business

From increased revenue to better customer relations, high quality data is key to your organization’s growth.

Five Primary Characteristics of High Quality Data

Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening today. Chris Lynch, American writer More businesses […]

Why Data Extraction Services are Better Than Tools for Enterprises

The key factors that set a data extraction service apart from its do-it-yourself variant

11 Most Common Myths About Data Scraping Debunked

Data scraping is the technological process of extracting available web data in a structured format. More businesses globally are realizing […]

Common Challenges During Amazon Data Collection

Over the last twenty years, Amazon has established itself as the world’s largest ecommerce platform having started out as a […]

Customer Review Insights: Analyzing Buyer Sentiments of Amazon Products

Actionable insights from Amazon reviews for better decision-making

A Look Back at Grepsr’s 2020

A brief look at Grepsr’s achievements in data extraction and industry reach in 2020, and a glimpse into 2021 plans.

Insights into Covid-19 Test Locations in the USA

An analysis of coronavirus testing facilities — geographic distribution, types, franchises, and testing and turnaround times

Importance of Data and Data Quality Assessment

According to Charles Babbage, one of the major inventors of computer technology, “Errors using inadequate data are much less than […]

Top 10 Benefits of Segmentation: Data Driven Market

For some years now, experts and executives in the business world have been discussing whether market segmentation

Role of Data Mining During the COVID-19 Outbreak

How web scraping and data mining can help predict, track and contain current and future disease outbreaks

Grepsr’s 2019 — A Year (and Decade) in Review

Time flies when you’re having fun

Happy Holidays

And a very happy new year!

Grepsr’s 2018 — A Year in Review

As we say hello to 2019, everyone here at Grepsr firstly wishes our readers and valued customers a very Happy […]

Grepsr — the Numbers That Matter

Our stats since the start of 2018

Kick-Start Your E-commerce Venture with Grepsr

400+ million entrepreneurs worldwide are attempting to start 300+ million companies, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Approximately a hundred […]

Screen Scraping – 4 Important Questions for Scoping your Web Project

Screen scraping should be easy. Often, however, it’s not. If you’ve ever used a data extraction software and then spent […]

Our Kimono Labs Replacement (Grepsr for Chrome) Levels Up 🚀

We’ve recently made a number of improvements to make Grepsr for Chrome that little bit easier, and more handy to use. We’ve […]

Introducing the All New Grepsr

Chrome Extension, APIs, Better Support & Much More

Importance of Web Crawling in the Age of Big Data

Big Data has become an internet buzz lately. Not a day goes by without a mention of Big Data in many […]

FIVE Essential Questions for Assessing your Big Data Deployment Readiness

When it comes to making an effective deployment of data, what matters the most is having a well-rounded data deployment […]

Our New Year Trip to Nagarkot

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France What else would you […]

10 Digital Marketing Trends that will Impact Your Business in 2015

During the last few years, SoLoMo (social, local, and mobile) have remained the defining trends in marketing, and data has […]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2015

Christmas Eve is here again, and we are on the threshold of the New Year 2015. You must be getting […]

Data Extraction for BI: Picking the Right Services is Crucial

Finding the appropriate data warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms that can

Data Mining to Predict, Track & Contain the Ebola Outbreak

One of the most diverse continents on earth, Africa astounds the world with its vast savannas and great deserts and […]

Maximizing the Benefits of Location Information Data: A Case Study

Advantages of Location Information Data Obtaining and integrating location information data into the day-to-day business operation policies and practices are […]

How are Data Sharing Tech Revolutionizing Education through Educational Data Mining?

Education-related statistics show the stark contradictions of our time, but they also tell us about the immense possibilities and big […]

Data Analytics for Better Business Intelligence

Advanced information technology has brought a massive paradigm shift in every aspect of human life. We spend more and more of […]

Why Data Visualization Matters to Your Business

There are several reasons why we believe that visual representation of data is becoming an integral part of Big Data […]

Big Data and the Power of Personalization

According to Wikipedia, Big data is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data […]

Data Science in Healthcare Revolution

Soon, wearable biomedical sensors are going to be the new gadgets of the post-smart phone era. They will keep track […]

Big Data is Redefining News

If digital data were something physical, it would have massively altered the shape of our world, probably, with the new […]

Web Crawling: Why is Service a Better Option than Software?

Data Discovery Holds the Future An overwhelming proportion of data that businesses use for the purpose of developing business insights […]

Grepsr: A Brief Story

Launched in 2012, Grepsr is a data management start-up based in Nepal and focused on web crawling. It has been […]

Location Analytics: ‘Where’ is the Knowledge of Data

Digital Technology and the Rediscovery of Geography A substantial amount of data that Grepsr processes and provides to its business […]

Data Mining: How Can Businesses Capitalize on Big Data?

In the recent years, data mining has become a prickly issue. The big controversies and clamors it has gathered in the political […]

Turning Data into an Asset

Have you ever been overwhelmed or even inundated by a sheer amount of data you have to handle every day? […]

Welcoming New Year 2014 with Renewed Energy

2013 in the Retrospect 2013 was a very productive year for Grepsr. Measuring our success as a startup, we were […]

Staying ahead with Automated Price Comparison

The spur of e-commerce and online shopping around the world has brought a huge change in the way marketing is […]

Web Scraping vs API

Every system you come across today has an API already developed for their customers or it is at least in […]

Importance of web crawling in the age of Big Data

Big Data has become an Internet buzz lately. Not a day goes by without a mention of Big Data in […]

Sneak peak at the all new Grepsr, launching May 2013

It’s been a busy year for all of us at Grepsr! We may not have been active with keeping everyone […]

Grepsr at Startup Asia event in Jakarta

We are just back from an awesome start-up event in Jakarta, Indonesia organized by TechInAsia. There were big investors and […]

Web Crawling Software or Web Crawling Service

Some people ask us if we are a “service” or a “software”. We simply tell them – we are a […]

Why is Web Crawling important?

Data lies in the heart of any business, even more if its tech related. With all the open standards of […]

Managed Data Extraction Service

Grepsr is what we like to call, “Managed Data Extraction Service”. Here are some of the reasons why we call […]