7 tools that can help you with data manipulation

These are some of the tools we use in competitor research for our customers - to analyze competitors and understand what they are doing and what they plan to do next.

1. 80 Legs - custom web crawling tools.
2. BatchGeo is an easy way to map many locations and other geographical information, e.g., all the locations of a competitor's stores, their data centres, or anything else.
3. Digimind is a social listening and web monitoring platform.
4. Diigo is a fancy bookmarking and tagging platform. It is less popular than it once was, but it is useful if you need more features for bookmark management than are available in your browser.
5. I-Metrix - various data manipulation tools from EDGAR Online for company financials.
6. Mechanical Turk - the original crowdsourcing marketplace for assigning microtasks to contractors worldwide.
7. Spotfire is an advanced visual analytics tool (and we would list Tableau on this page, too, except that it's now part of Salesforce and not really standalone).