case study: finding self-storage sites
Custom Web scraping and data manipulation
approach
We were contacted by a self-storage development group who was unsatisfied with the current options of data services in the market. The goal was simple: to be able to scan the country and see what locations of self-storage sites were charging for their units, searching for where the market was hot. We at Brock Endeavors created a custom web scraping tool to extract data from competitors and simply filter by the parameters chosen by the client.
Screenshot of data table
2. results
The result was an assembly of over 60,000 data points from scraping the web delivered in 10 business days. Within the first week of delivery, we were contacted by our client to report they already had under verbal contract a new site for development. They had found “a diamond in the rough”.
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