Data is a very broad concept. Obtaining data contains many meanings, such as a calculated numerical result, a final proportion of statistics, a contract text of an enterprise, and an emerging policy issued by a country. The process of obtaining this information can be called information acquisition, so what are the general methods of obtaining data?
1, public information and sorting
For example, data from the Bureau of Statistics, research reports from other market institutions, or sorting out according to scattered public information.
2. The purchased database
There are many product databases in the market, such as Bloomberg, OneSource, Wind and so on. Many universities and research institutions also buy it.
3. Your own database
Doing your own database is actually a very troublesome thing. Focus on accumulation.
4. Consulting industry experts
This should be quite common in the project. Some industry experts specialize in collecting and selling data.
5, send a questionnaire
Sometimes, we collect special data for individual projects, such as sending out questionnaires by ourselves, but this kind of data needs a lot of work and takes too much time and energy to collect, sort out and classify.
All of the above are common collection methods, so what about the uncommon collection methods? Most of the things that are not common to ordinary people are unconventional and unconventional, and most of them need special authorization or illegal operation. These methods are either confidential or cold, only a few people know, otherwise most people will come. Let's look up some information from the internet and analyze it together.
There are some ways to get "raw cold", because of professional or language barriers, resulting in a small circulation range, resulting in the phenomenon that the data is there but you can't see it. take for example
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Private network collector, which collects scattered content on the network simply and quickly in the form of software, has a good content collection function and does not need technical cost, and is used as a primary collection tool by many users.
As for the "confidential" access channel, it is a pity that it is confidential. . .