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Get the Data: The best search engines are people |
2015-08-12 |
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blog |
There's increasing amounts of data publicly online. But it's often hard to find. Search engines or other automated tools may help. But ultimately this needs human intelligence -- and the wisdom of the crowd.
Ultimately "the best search engines are people". A data concierge service would therefore be valuable. The service could combine both community Q&A with an option for paid for personal service.
This a thesis we've had for quite a few years -- we even ran a data Q&A site called the getthedata.org back in 2011.
We find you the data you want reliably and quickly
- Reliable
- Timely
- Structured how you want it
- Large or small - whether its a few key figures, or gigabytes of data we can handle it
- Confidential - our service is completely confidential
- One-off or recurring, one dataset or many - we can deliver you data on a regular basis, or
- Cost-effective
- You tell us what you want in a sentence or two
- Based on a FREE rapid assessment we provide you a quote including cost and time (based on determining) a) if this information exists b) rough estimated cost and time to acquire for you c) to determine any additional clarifications or details we need from you
- You choose whether to proceed
- We deliver you the data
- There's increasing amounts of data available online including in a growing number of open data portals
- However, its difficult to find on your own - search engines often work poorly as data is often hard to describe in a way computers can understand
- Even when you can find data, data quality and structure is often poor and the data needs cleaning and transforming to be immediately usable
Using people, our platform and years of experience we deliver reliably, cost-effectively and on time.
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