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Learn more about the Data Innovation Canvas from Communitech.

Watch Chris Willsher, Director of Data Platforms at Communitech, presents the canvas during the May 8th Communitech® Data Hub Sessions. The video starts at 41:25

Data extraction projects are complex and often require quite a lot of time and effort. To make sure your organization is creating value and that your money and your time are well spent, the first logical step is to choose your sources carefully. To help you achieve just that, we create a list of 10 questions you need to ask before you set your sights on a dataset. The goal here is to collect and analyze all the data existing information in order to clarify its ownership, publication, structure, content, quality, relationship, etc. Only by going through this process can you guarantee the suitability of your sources and identify potential problems and particularities.

Our team here at RefinePro has a deep experience doing research and development in data processing and automation. And PDF extraction is one of the many services we offer.

Data extraction is now one of the most efficient ways for companies to stay up to date with current events and trends, but also to position themselves in their field. But for a lot of small entrepreneurs and even larger companies, the implementation of data extraction projects presents new challenges: How should these processes be implemented, and by whom?

Extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data is a complex process at the center of most organizations’ data extraction projects. As we saw in our article on web scraping and ETL, the implementation of an ETL workflow is a process that requires a lot of in-depth knowledge in several subfields of statistics and programming.