PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE
  • POS data covering food, beverages, and household brands. Mapped to 250 companies with global coverage: Knowledge Leaps
  • POS data in Japan, covering 3mm products across 4,000 companies: Nikkei
  • Global trade data covering 8mm companies and 1bn shipping records, obtained via customs and business intelligence databases; acquired by S&P: Panjiva
  • Sentiment and event tracking data sourced from 2mm public web pages, blogs, and twitter: Event Registry
  • Text analytics platform with custom solutions as well as eight years of of ticker-mapped data across multiple languages: Quantxt
See public database of 371 data providers.
UPDATES
  • Alternative Data Group launched an API for wrangling alternative data, including features for data mapping and PII removal.
    • Sign up here and receive $300 off with code AlternativedataOrg_ADGAPI2018
  • Orbital Insight acquired FeatureX, an AI provider specializing in satellite imagery processing. (Integrity Researchsubscription required)
  • Enigma, a public data aggregator, raised $95mm to expand business and hire more data experts. (WSJsubscription required)
NEW REQUESTS FOR DATA
  • Data on sales headcounts for enterprise software companies.
  • Data on Verizon 5G rollout.
  • UK transaction data (credit card or email receipt).
If you have this data or know who may, reply directly to this email.  See Requests for Data page to see all open requests or to make a new request.
EVENTS
OPENINGS
NEWS & INSIGHTS
  • Dataminr and IHS Markit referenced in article asserting that alternative data could have been used to predict Turkish lira volatility. (marketsmedia)