Core Concepts¶

Understand the key ideas behind Content Chimera — how it thinks about websites, organizes data, and helps you make decisions at scale.

  • Underlying Principles
    • We need a forest and trees approach.
    • Decide. Don’t Inspect.
    • Speed to insight is essential.
    • Many “surprises” shouldn’t be.
    • Excel (or other tool) plumbing work is not desirable.
  • Extents: Sites, Sitegroups, and Clients
    • Grouping Sites
    • Using Extents in Content Chimera
  • The Crawling Pipeline
    • Starting a Crawl
    • The Three Pipeline Steps
    • Crawl Statuses
    • Watching Crawls Live
    • Encountered Domains
  • Deduplicating URLs
    • Crawling vs. Deduplicating
  • Filters
    • Filter conditions
    • Where filters are used
    • Shared filters
  • Expression Functions
    • Syntax Guidelines
    • Choosing the right function
    • Comparison of function types
    • Simple Comparison Functions
    • Text Processing Functions
    • Mathematical Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Mapping Functions

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Contents

  • Getting Started
  • Core Concepts
    • Underlying Principles
    • Extents: Sites, Sitegroups, and Clients
    • The Crawling Pipeline
    • Deduplicating URLs
    • Filters
    • Expression Functions
  • Analysis & Visualization
  • Making Decisions
  • Reports
  • Use Cases
  • Importing Data
  • Administration
  • Reference

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