Hi there! My name is Julia and I am a Machine Learning Research Engineer at Diffbot. Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, I moved to London to study Business. While I enjoyed my degree, I realized I was much more interested in technology, so I taught myself enough coding and math to qualify for […]
Welcome Lorenzo Torres – Technical Sourcer
I received my Bachelor’s Degree from University of Southern California (Fight On!) and then became a food truck driver and manager for a waffle dessert company in Pasadena, CA called Waffles de Liege. After 3 years, I felt that I wasn’t doing anything fulfilling and realized that I wanted to make an impact and difference […]
Welcome Paramita Mirza – Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Hello there! I’m Paramita (sounds similar to ‘parameter’) and I’m excited to be part of the Relation Extraction research team at Diffbot. I received my PhD degree from the University of Trento/FBK-ICT in spring 2016. Under the supervision of Sara Tonelli, my PhD research focused on extracting temporal and causal relations between events from […]
Diffbot State of Machine Learning Report – 2018
In what will likely be the first of many reports from the team here at Diffbot, we wanted to start with a topic near and dear to our (silicon) hearts: machine learning. Using the Diffbot Knowledge Graph, and in only a matter of hours, we conducted the single largest survey of machine learning skills ever […]
Turn Existing Customer Data into Fresh Marketing Opportunities with Knowledge Graph
I wanted to use our own tech and show that you can cross-reference your sales data with the 10+ billion entities stored in Diffbot Knowledge Graph, to find marketing opportunities with a little #KnowledgeHack. I wasn’t disappointed with what I found. Because the Diffbot Knowledge Graph (KG) focuses on people, companies, and location data, I […]
Introducing the Diffbot Knowledge Graph
Meet the largest database of human knowledge ever created: Diffbot Knowledge Graph Diffbot is pleased to announce the launch of a new product: Diffbot Knowledge Graph. What is the Knowledge Graph? Eight years ago, Diffbot revolutionized web data extraction with AI data extractors (AI:X). Now, Diffbot is set to disrupt how businesses interact with data from the web again […]
The Ultimate Guide to Product and Pricing Data
Today there are more products being sold online that there are humans on earth by a factor 100 times. Amazon alone has more than 400,000 product pages, each with multiple variations such as size, color, and shape — each with its own price, reviews, descriptions, and a host of other data points. Imagine If you […]
What is Product Data?
Every now and then it’s important to get back to basics and ask a question which seems obvious, because sometimes those questions have hidden depths. The question “What Is Product Data?” is one of those I recently asked myself, and it led me down a mini-rabbit hole. The basic definition of a product is: “A […]
Why You Need to Crawl Your Own Site
You use web crawling for almost every site on the web. Here’s why that list should include your own site, too.
How Certain Site Designs Mess With Data Extraction
Here’s why certain website designs can break a homegrown scraper (and what to do about it).