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1. Social Media Data - Twitter mentions etc 2. Website scraping (trolling linkedin, alexa, github) for evidence of activity 3. Credit Card Data - aggregate and
by thedudeabides5 6y ago
1. Social Media Data - Twitter mentions etc
2. Website scraping (trolling linkedin, alexa, github) for evidence of activity
3. Credit Card Data - aggregate and POS data
4. Satellite Data - How many cars in the Walmart parking lot.
Those are a couple of the more shiny alternative data set in terms of interest. A lot of quants also pay big bucks for more micro or hft data.
- soniman 6y agoThanks. I've wondered whether the Linkedin "people also viewed" could be used to predict M&A transactions.
- adrr 6y agoCredit card data would be the keys to the castle if terms of predicting revenue for a company.
- altdatathrow 6y agoTransaction data is widely available and considered table stakes today.