Data Analysis

Black Friday 2022: the final countdown for Czech e-commerce discount tricks

Is this year's Black Friday the last chance for e-commerce stores to artificially inflate their discounts? Hopefully, yes, thanks to new law based on EU directive.

13 min read Dec 5, 2022

Web Scraping

The definitive guide to text scraping

Theo Vasilis

Text scraping and computational text mining and analysis methods are becoming increasingly popular among students, scholars, and researchers in multiple academic fields. We show you how to extract text data from websites with Smart Article Extractor.

14 min read Oct 10, 2022

Data Analysis

Czech media and their word choices: before and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Natasha Lekh

Inspired by the book on combatting disinformation by Ján Markoš, Data Academy students decided to dedicate their data project to analyzing the Czech media narrative of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

13 min read Aug 1, 2022

Law

New EU Directive on Consumer Protection: are retailer giants ready for the new reality? Insights backed up by data.

Jakub Balada

The new EU Directive on consumer protection has come into force. How did Czech online stores prepare for it? Insights backed up by data.

10 min read Jul 26, 2022

Facebook

Facebook data mining with web scraping

Theo Vasilis

Facebook data mining lets you dive deeper into market demographics, helps you to offer products based on people’s personal choices, and makes it possible to identify consumer behavior. But data mining can’t happen without web scraping. Find out why you need a Facebook scraper for Facebook mining.

4 min read Jun 28, 2022

Data Analysis

What are the top 7 online data analytics programs in 2022?

Mariachiara Faraon

Data analysts are in great demand at the moment. But why is data analytics important? And how do you become a data analyst? Find out all you need to know about becoming a data analyst and discover the 7 best online data analytics programs in 2022.

6 min read Jun 3, 2022

Tutorial

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 Analysis

When data gets too big: why you need structured data

Theo Vasilis

Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. 80% of it is unstructured. How can we harness the power of all that information and make it usable?

5 min read Feb 9, 2022

Black Friday

Black Friday 2021 in Czech Republic - real discounts and same old tricks from retailers

Natasha Lekh

Our 5th annual analysis of discount tactics used by the largest Czech e-commerce retailers around the time of Black Friday.

13 min read Dec 3, 2021

Retail

Top 5 web scraping tools to help you gather retail analytics

Natasha Lekh

Managing a retail business is impossible without data analytics in some shape or form. Web scraping is a great opportunity for retailers to move from manual data collection to automated solutions.

7 min read Nov 25, 2021

Web Scraping

Top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts, powered by Apify

Natasha Lekh

Discover the top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts. Learn about the difference between web scraping tools, techniques and companies

10 min read Sep 14, 2021

Web Scraping

Pros and cons of web scraping

Natasha Lekh

If you've ever heard of web scraping or web crawling, this post is for you. In this article, we will talk about the pros and cons of using web scraping tools and technologies.

13 min read Sep 2, 2021