json vs simplejson vs ujson

Without argument, one of the most common used data model is JSON. There are two popular packages used for handling json — first is the stockjson package that comes with default installation of Python, the other one issimplejson which is an optimized and maintained package for…

Analyzing Social Trends Data from Google Trends and YouTube

In today’s world dominated by technology and gadgets, we often wonder how well a particular product or technology is being perceived by society and if it is truly going to leave a long lasting impression. We regularly see fan…

Building a Twitter Sentiment Analysis App using R

Twitter, as we know, is a highly popular social networking and micro-blogging service used by millions worldwide. Each status or tweet as we call it is a 140 character text message. Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered…

Assortment Intelligence: So you think you know your offerings?

In retail, product assortment plays a critical role in selling effectively. It impacts the everyday decision making of category managers, brand managers, the merchandising, planning, and logistics teams. A good assortment…

Why is product matching hard?

Product Matching is a combination of algorithmic and manual techniques to recognize and match identical products from different sources. Product matching is at the core of competitive intelligence for retail. A competitive intelligence product is most useful when it can…

Implementing DataWeave’s Social API for Social Data Analysis

In today’s world, the analysis of any social media stream can reap invaluable information about, well, pretty much everything. If you are a business catering to a large number of consumers, it is a very important tool for…

Smartphones vs Tablets: Does size matter?

We have seen a steady increase in the number of smartphones and tablets since the last five years. Looking at the number of smartphones, tablets and now wearables ( smart watches and fitbits ) that are being launched in the mobiles market, we can truly call…

Conquering the Data Mountain API by API

Let’s revisit our raison d’être: DataWeave is a platform on which we do large-scale data aggregation and serve this data in forms that are easily consumable. The nature of the data that we deal with is that: (1) it is publicly available on the web, (2) it is…

The Price is Right!

Picture this. You’re approaching the biggest sale of the year for your business, the number of offerings are ever growing and your competitors are inching in on your turf. How then are you to tackle the complex & challenging task of pricing your offerings? In short how do you know if the price…