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> a bot that just estimates oil futures based on satellite imagery Are there any resources containing lists of software projects or companies that do work like
by nexuist 6y ago
> a bot that just estimates oil futures based on satellite imagery
Are there any resources containing lists of software projects or companies that do work like this? This and using satellite imagery to identify car models so you can estimate the average income of an area from its parking lots seem so fascinating to me. I imagine there's probably millions of unrelated, free data sources out there that could be linked together into something useful for market trading.
- Closi 6y agoA few links you might find interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-16/satellites-are-reshaping-how-traders-track-earthly-commodities https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-16/satellite... https://alternativedata.org/ https://alternativedata.org/ Although some novel strategies will be based on using publicly available data sources, a lot of it is often working out how to extract new data to create a private data source which has information others can’t access. Examples of funds would be Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma. It’s worth noting that these funds have really suffered during Covid as the change in the market has been too big for their models to support.