Unlike buying datasets and hiring people, the technology infrastructure required to analyze alternative data can be acquired at minimal to zero cost. We have put together a list of all the…
The Download 11: Quantifying Disney-Fox Impact On Netflix, 9 New Datasets, 2 New Skills
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE New Datasets TrustData – Chinese mobile app usage data provider with over 150mm MAUs. Unacast – geo-location data provider with ~11mm MAUs in the US, sourced from GPS, WiFi…
The Download X – Coding-Free Web Scraping Tool, Tesla Production Data, and 14 New Data Providers
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE New Dataset Spotlight Zaoshu.io – coding-free web scraping platform focused on Chinese companies. Tracks JD and AMZN. RandomWalk – consumer foot traffic (geolocation) and email receipt data on 15K stores, including…
The Download 09: 21 New Datasets, Moody’s Invests In Property Data Startup
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE (191) Added: EEDAR – data and analytics on over 127K video game products. WDZJ.com – daily data on various Chinese P2P companies, including Yirendai (YRD), PPDF, Rapid Finance. Re-analytics – web data…
The Download 08 – 16 New Datasets, Introducing “Request For Data”
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE (174) Added: One Click Retail – e-commerce data analytics firm. Provides sales figures for items sold on Amazon.com. (WSJ, subscription required) TransCore – provides various transportation industry metrics. Scoop Analytics –…
The Download 07 – 13 New Datasets, Point72 Invests in Database Startup
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE UPDATES: Point72 leads $25mm Series A for database startup, FaunaDB. (PRnewswire) Coatue invested in data science infrastructure company, Domino Data Lab, earlier this year. (WSJ, login required) AppAnnie, app usage data…
The Download 06: 14 New Datasets, 3 New Jobs, 21 Data Success Stories
Monday, September 11, 2017 DATA PROVIDER DATABASE Updates: Descartes Labs, a satellite data provider, raises $30mm Series B. (TechCrunch) YipitData launched Ryanair (RYA) and Carvana (CVNA) datasets. Ursa, a satellite data provider, released new Caribbean…
The Download 05: 9 New Datasets, Balyasny Invests in Data Company, Challenges for Geo-Location Data
Thursday, August 31, 2017 DATA PROVIDER DATABASE (New Datasets and Updates) Update Balyasny invests in geo-location alternative data provider, Cubiq.(Integrity Research) Update Geo-location data provider, Reveal Mobile, is facing challenges for receiving unauthorized user data from…
Verified List of Alternative Data Providers
The hardest part about alternative data can very well be identifying all of the different data sources across hundreds of providers. The number of providers has skyrocketed in recent years,…
Download 04: Web Scraping Ruling, New Geo-Location Dataset, and New Features
A federal court ruled against LinkedIn, confirming that a startup can scrape its publicly available data – a potentially precedent-setting ruling in favor of web scraping based analytics (Ars Technica, WSJ) We…