Mariachiara Faraon

Writer, cultural analyst, gatherer & teller of stories. Passionate about human rights and equality, and curious about how communication and AI can affect them.

10 posts

A Series of Unfortunate Events or What it Takes to Organize an Apify Teambuilding

Karolína Jánošíková, Natasha Lekh, Mariachiara Faraon, Theo Vasilis

Apifiers vs. the bad luck - who will win? Not to spoil the good fun, but nothing can stop an Apifier when teambuilding is at stake. Well, almost nothing ;)

5 min read Apr 7, 2022

Automation

Two time-saving tools to get the best out of Notion

Mariachiara Faraon

Learn how to get the best out of Notion with these two automation tools. Read more about what they can do for you and how to use them with this step-by-step guide.

5 min read Mar 24, 2022

Ecommerce

Our 6 favorite e-commerce scrapers for March

Mariachiara Faraon

Scrape e-commerce websites for customer, product, and transaction data to keep an eye on your competitors, monitor prices, research products, and measure brand sentiment. Find out how to scrape Decathlon and hundreds of other e-commerce websites with this easy step-by-step guide.

5 min read Mar 22, 2022

Tutorial

How to scrape LinkedIn for company and personal page URLs

Mariachiara Faraon

Learn how easy it is to scrape LinkedIn for company and individual page URLs. Find out how LinkedIn scrapers can help your business and discover our 4 favorite reasons for using them.

7 min read Mar 16, 2022

Women In Tech

IWD2022: are women in tech still fighting gender bias?

Mariachiara Faraon

For International Women's Day 2022, we look at the gender bias that women in tech still have to deal with and talk about how IT companies can help make their workplace a better place for all their employees.

6 min read Mar 7, 2022

Tableau

Why use Tableau – and how to refresh Tableau dashboards like a pro

Mariachiara Faraon

Learn about Tableau Public, discover the 3 main reasons why you should be using it, and find out how to refresh your Tableau Public dashboards like a pro, as many times a day as you like, thanks to Tableau Dashboard Refresher.

5 min read Feb 17, 2022

Data collection

What is data collection? Plus the top 7 data collection methods

Mariachiara Faraon

Data collection is a fundamental component of research in any field. It refers to the process of gathering information for analysis on a specific topic in an organized and systematic way.

4 min read Feb 11, 2022

Market Research

How to use web scraping for online research

Mariachiara Faraon

Web scraping speeds up the data extraction process for both academic or market research. Manual research is fine when copying and pasting information from a few websites, but web scraping is the way to get data for more extensive projects.

5 min read Feb 2, 2022

Web

How do proxies affect digital freedom?

Mariachiara Faraon

Proxies and VPNs can affect internet transparency in many ways. They can unlock geo-restricted content, prevent discrimination, and grant digital freedom under oppressive regimes. Learn more about online openness and censorship.

5 min read Jan 26, 2022

Proxy

What is a proxy server?

Mariachiara Faraon, Theo Vasilis, Dávid Lukáč

Find out everything you need to learn about proxies, what they are, how they work, how to get one, and how Apify Proxy can help, with this quick guide to proxy servers.

5 min read Jan 19, 2022