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Web scraping and utilizing various APIs are great ways to collect data from websites and applications that can later be used in <a href="http://www.acheronanalytics.com/acheron-blog/a-guide-to-data-wrangling-for-data-science-projects">data analytics</a>. There is a company called HiQ that is well known for web scraping. HiQ crawls various “Public” websites to collect data and provide analytics for companies on their employees. They help companies find top talent using sites data like Linkedin, and other public sources to gain the information needed in their algorithms.