While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Q: We receive documents in paper form, and I have to type information from them into our system. Is there an easier way to digitize this information into Excel? A: Excel allows you to extract data ...

Suppose you want to run regular statistical analyses on your Web site’s traffic log data — several hundred terabytes, updated weekly. (Don’t laugh. This is not unheard of for popular Web sites.) ...