Google Analytics is a useful tool for measuring website usage — everything from simple page views to the kind of complex ad campaign tracking marketers might need. However, I find the user interface ...

In the world of Big Data, there's a lot of talk about unstructured data -- after all, "variety" is one of the three Vs. Often these discussions dwell on log file data, sensor output or media content.

Extracting text from a Web page can be done in several ways. The method you choose should depend on the purpose you have in mind for the text. If all your business needs is to print out the text for ...

On the Web, tables are everywhere—you may not even realize how many sites rely on tables behind the scenes for their formatting. Useful as they are for aligning content and displaying columnar data, ...

A fledgling Dutch startup wants to help companies extract data from large volumes of complex documents where accuracy and security is paramount — and it has just secured the backing of Google’s ...

Web-scraping is essentially the task of finding out what input a website expects and understanding the format of its response. For example, Recovery.gov takes a user’s zip code as input before ...