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What Happens When Data Quality Goes Wrong And How to Fix It
Corporate decisions are always driven by data and it determines a company’s long-term success. The quality of data a company can access determines their customer experiences, analytics, insights, retention, and revenue. This article looks at ways a company can improve its data quality.
4 days ago
How to Innovate P&C Insurance With a Real Estate Data API
In the connected P&C insurance ecosystem, a property data API has become a critical enabler for businesses committed to staying ahead of the competition by modernizing workflows and offering innovative customer-centric services that have a direct positive impact on the bottom line.
10-22-2019
Daily API RoundUp: Ingram Micro, Dataverse, Zaius, PageCDN
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in the Science, Cryptocurrency, and Financial categories, among others. Highlights include the Chooch object and facial recognition API and the Dataverse API for research data access. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
09-21-2019
How Will the Off-Facebook Activity Feature Impact Developers?
Facebook is pitching its Off-Facebook Activity feature as the solution to its crushed reputation over transparency and lack of user data control. But, two major questions remain. Will the feature be enough for Facebook critics? Second, what impact will the feature have on the developer community?
08-21-2019
10 Most Popular Data APIs
Data and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) go hand-in-hand. Application developers connect to endless sorts of data repositories with APIs, and ProgrammableWeb is the source to discover the best ones for their applications. Here we check out the ten most popular Data APIs in our directory.
06-23-2019
Axway Unveils AMPLIFY Streams for Event-Driven Data Streaming
Event-driven data streaming is gaining popularity and Axway, provider of a hybrid integration and content collaboration platform called AMPLIFY, has announced a new feature, AMPLIFY Streams, that allows any API to be turned into an event-driven data stream without server-side code.
06-06-2019
MicroBilt Launches Developer Site and Consumer Data APIs
MicroBilt has taken the next step in automating and scaling access to its robust suite of consumer data sets. The company consolidated access to its data assets through a developer site and cohesive set of API packages. The APIs cover credit, background check, business verification and collections.
05-09-2019
Daily API RoundUp: Globalhop, Remove.bg, Targomo, Oxylabs
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Optimization, Monetization, Hotels, and Identity. Highlights include an API for backcountry skiing data, and an API that removes the background from images. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
04-09-2019
A How-to Guide for Selecting the Right Property Data API to Build Your Business
Historical property data can be extremely valuable in real estate, insurance, home services and advertising industries –– just to name a few. The Estated API can help you integrate that data into your application. Estated has put together a guide to help you through the process.
03-26-2019
How Data Quality APIs Extend the Life of Your Contact Data
It costs organizations substantial amounts of money to not have a “verify and cleanse” solution in place for validating contact data. With that in mind, let’s examine some of Melissa's industry-leading, flexible Web APIs that help you achieve contact data quality in real-time.
02-14-2019
New Report Finds that Facebook SDK Automatically Pulls Data from Many Popular Android Apps
Facebook is at the center of another privacy controversy. This time, the most popular Android apps are involved. Almost half of the apps on the Google Play store have the ability to share data with Facebook, and it looks like many of them are sharing automatically (no Facebook account is needed).
01-03-2019
ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2018: Big Data and Analytics
This portion of our series about the Most Interesting APIs in 2018 encompasses all APIs developers could utilize for data manipulation purposes, such as accessing data, extracting data from web sources, creating reports and visualizations, database administration, linking data in apps, and more.
12-24-2018
Estated Upgrades Property Data API with RESO Compliance and Parcel Search for Proptech Industry
Estated, a leading property data provider, today announced the latest version of their property data API. Businesses and developers will now have access to over 135M properties and nearly 160M parcels across the United States. Estated now offers a RESO compliant Universal Property ID search feature.
10-29-2018
Should You Build or Buy Your Data Quality Solution?
The cost of bad data is high – from faulty insights, poor business decisions and lost sales to an annual cost of $3.1 trillion for U.S. companies alone. Melissa offers a white paper weighing the pros and cons of addressing data quality in-house versus an off-the-shelf solution.
10-17-2018
Time to Challenge Google Maps Pricing
How one company analyzed the cost of its integral use of the Google Map's Platform. Poland's GdziePoLek.pl incurred a huge monthly charge for the mapping data it relied on to locate the best sites for purchasing medications — it's primary value-added service provided to its customers.
08-26-2018
23andMe to Shutter Public API, Gives Developers Two Weeks Notice
DNA testing provider 23andMe has informed developers that it will be shuttering its public API in two weeks to focus on apps that use its internal reports. The API was intended to give developers the ability to build apps and tools that took advantage of the company’s genetic data sets.
08-24-2018
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter Announce Open Source Data Portability Project
Four tech titans have announced the Data Transfer Project. The project is an open source, service-to-service, data portability platform. With the implementation of GDPR, and the increase need of consumers to retrieve and move their data, the Data Transfer Project looks to standardize the process.
07-23-2018
Apache Pulsar 2.0 Release Now Available
Streamlio has announced the release of Apache Pulsar 2.0 which includes several new enhancements including Schema Registry and Topic Compaction. This latest release of Apache Pulsar also includes the general availability of Pulsar Functions which are lightweight, stream-native compute processes.
06-07-2018
Facebook Posts GDPR FAQ for Facebook Platform
Facebook has published a page for Facebook Platform developers that answers frequenty asked questions (FAQs) about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR went into effect on May 25 and requires companies in the EU and around the world to comply with stronger data protection rules.
05-29-2018
Data, Financial, Analytics API Categories See Big Growth
One of the cool things our directory data allows us to do is to get a glimpse at both short term and long term trends in the API space. One slice of data worth looking at is the categories have had the most growth. This article looks at which categories have grown the most in the last five years.
05-21-2018