Why you’re doing big data wrong
Ma#hew PainterCTO at import.io
She is a data scien5st working for
She needs data for pricing books
She could do this manually
She could do this with web scrapers
Both of these are bad
Time wasted collec;ng data
Scrapers are hard to write
Ge>ng data off the web can be fast
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Fantas;c for small companies
The struggle with scale
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The data will save you ;me
Don’t let data collec;on issues
stop you
Don’t waste your ;me