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This looks really interesting, though if one is looking for publicly available data, I think it's an open question of how much of the value is in providing a ma
by aheilbut 17y ago
This looks really interesting, though if one is looking for publicly available data, I think it's an open question of how much of the value is in providing a marketplace vs. actually doing the aggregation, organization and some analysis.
Two other interesting startups in this space that are focussed more on the data aggregation end are http://www.AnythingResearch.com http://www.AnythingResearch.com and http://www.AggData.com http://www.AggData.com (which has dozens of retail datasets just like the Walmart store example, presumably gathered by screen-scraping).
- matthodan 17y agoData Marketplace can help people who are looking for data connect with people who are able to collect it. One of the problems with all of the data online is that it is in too raw a format to be useful. Someone must scrape/combine/clean the data before it can be analyzed. By connecting business people who maybe don't know how to scrape data with programmers/aggregators who specialize in it, we hope to make it a lot easier to find useful data.