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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. The tech economy suffered greatly in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js

Smashing Magazine

Maybe you’re launching some software and need to know how to price it. Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. Robert Sfichi.

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