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Asked: December 8, 20192019-12-08T15:13:07+00:00 2019-12-08T15:13:07+00:00In: Business & Finance

What are alternative data and what who are the leading alternative data companies?

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What are alternative data and what who are the leading alternative data companies?

Alternative data has become popular nowadays and more companies are investing in it. How does it differ from the traditional data sets and who are some leading players in the alternative data industry?

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    1. Alvaro Level 1
      2019-12-09T15:18:59+00:00Added an answer on December 9, 2019 at

      Alternative data refers to secondary information which is utilised to get timely insight by investment companies. Alternative data comes from other than the primary source.

      For instance, an investor wants to buy shares of a company X. However, company X, quarterly data has not yet been published. Therefore, the investor would explore other sources to get to know the recent developments in company X. The other sources can be from Twitter, latest images, website traffic etc., depending on the company X nature of business.

      Alternative data is in the form of big data and can be very complex and large. It would require AI or special software to analyse and get intuitions.

      Microsoft Excel would not be an ideal solution to handle such data. Some, of the data, can be collected through financial transactions, IoT, sensors, mobile devices, satellites etc.

      Alternative data can be collected through various ways such as web scraping, API, which would come in a very complicated form. Even some data would be non-numeric.

      According to AlternativeData, the following are leading companies operating in various sectors.

      Automotive

      • YipitData
      • 7Park
      • M Science
      • Thinknum
      • Quandl
      • Manheim
      • Statistical Survey
      • RVIA

      China

      • Jiguang
      • Appannie
      • Sandalwood
      • M Science
      • Pacific Epoch
      • Quest Mobile
      • TH Capital
      • Talkingdata
      • iResearch
      • YipitData

      Consumer

      • NPD
      • 1010Data
      • YipitData
      • Yodlee/Envestnet
      • M Science
      • 7Park
      • Slice Intelligence

      Energy

      • Orbital Insights
      • Genscape
      • Spaceknow
      • Sky Watch
      • Discern
      • JWN Energy
      • Spaceknow

      Internet

      • YipitData
      • 1010Data
      • Thinknum
      • M Science
      • 7Park
      • Alexa
      • AddThis

      Transportation

      • Transcore
      • Flexport
      • American Trucking Association
      • Geotab

      Travel

      • Thasos
      • YipitData
      • JumpShot
      • SimilarWeb
      • STR
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    2. Pablo Level 1
      2019-12-09T15:21:08+00:00Added an answer on December 9, 2019 at

      The data can be collected in different forms and impossible for Excel to handle.

      • App usage
      • Credit card transactions
      • Email receipts
      • Flight and shipping trackers
      • Geolocation
      • Obscure city hall records
      • Online browsing activity
      • Point-of-sale transactions
      • Price trackers
      • Product reviews
      • Satellite images
      • Shipping container receipts
      • Social media posts
      • Survey
      • Weather data
      • Web site usage
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