Collect Competitive Intelligence from Datasets

Do you know about Open Datasets? Google got its Dataset Search out of Beta, and you should bookmark it.

There are many ways to locate datasets. Once you start looking, it's endless! There's Google-owned Kaggle.com. There are lists of datasets. There are gigantic lists of datasets and lists of favorites, and suggestions on Ycombinator.

There is an alternative way to find datasets, and that is in a Custom Search Engine, using a schema.org Object "Dataset". I have created one, try it.

What can we expect to find in datasets? Industry, employment, and demographic data, but also, sometimes, contact lists and organizational charts. Datasets can be awesome for Competitive Intelligence.

I got lucky having found a downloadable list of 60K+ CEO and VP email contacts (you are welcome!)

There is a 7 MLN US companies dataset at Peopledatalabs. It includes Company Name, Domain, Linkedin, # of Employees, Year Founded, Industry, and Location (city, state, country).

Please come to our new webinar on CI to learn more!