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From AltData.wiki, The Alternative Data Encyclopedia

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22 signal families

Hubs

5 sources

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367 companies

Datasets

1667 indexed

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6 articles

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Free & Open Data

Card & Transactions

Web & Pricing Data

News & Sentiment

Foot Traffic & Mobility

ESG & Climate

Satellite & Geospatial

Supply Chain & Shipping

Jobs & Workforce

Weather & Agriculture

App Usage & Downloads

Email Receipts

Credit & Lending

Public Records & Filings

Expert Networks & Surveys

Sensors & IoT

Crypto & On-Chain

Healthcare & Clinical

Private Markets Signals

Auto & Vehicle Data

Estimates, Events & Fund Flows

Technographics & Tech Stacks

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Primers

Practical encyclopedia articles on buying, evaluating and using alternative data.

What is alternative data?

A plain-English introduction to alternative data: what it is, why investors pay for it, and the main signal families.

How funds evaluate alternative data vendors

The checklist data sourcing teams run before licensing a dataset: history, coverage, point-in-time, delivery and compliance.

Job postings as an investment signal

Why hiring data predicts revenue, how funds use it, and what to look for in a job-postings dataset.

Card transaction panels explained

How anonymized payment panels approximate company revenue, and the caveats buyers must weigh.

Delivery formats: API, S3, Snowflake, Parquet

How alternative data actually reaches a fund's stack, and which format fits each stage of evaluation.

Open vs commercial alternative data

Where free datasets end and paid feeds begin — and how to use open data to de-risk a commercial license.