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Well, not exactly. Developers can make use of Scribe which is Facebook's opensource logging server, or roll their own dead-simple log server. Really its all a
by physcab 16y ago
Well, not exactly. Developers can make use of Scribe which is Facebook's opensource logging server, or roll their own dead-simple log server. Really its all about firing events everytime a user does something on your site and recording that data in a text file. Then you data-mine later.
- paulgb 16y agoI think this is a point of confusion because "data-driven businesses" is used elsewhere to mean a business in any industry which uses analytics to optimize operations. In this article it's referring to a company for which the product is the data itself. For the latter type of company, you need external data sources, and their availability is crucial for the viability of the company.