• TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s a ton of money to be made from scraping, consolidating, and organizing publicly accessible data. A company I worked for did it with health insurance policy data because every insurance company has a different website with a different data format and data that updates every day. People will pay da big bux for someone to wrap all that messiness into a neat, consistent package. Many sites even gave us explicit permission to scrape because they didn’t want to set up an api or find some way to send us files.

    Right now, gathering machine learning data is hot, cause you need a lot of it to train a model. Companies may specialize in getting, say, social media posts from all kinds of sites and putting them together in a consistent format.