Global Places Dataset

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Foursquare/Global Places Dataset is a alternative data data product published on databricks-marketplace and indexed by The Alternative Data Encyclopedia.

Foursquare publishes Global Places Dataset as an offering in the alternative data signal family.

The publisher is covered in its own article: Foursquare.

The data

Foursquare maintains it as part of its alternative data portfolio and lists it through databricks-marketplace.

Structure, access and licensing

License: other. Pricing: Commercial terms (Databricks Marketplace).

Access is through a dataset that is obtained from the databricks-marketplace listing. The listing does not state an explicit refresh schedule, which is worth confirming before backtesting.

About the provider

Geo-location data which can be used to measure consumer foot traffic. Founded in 2009; 421 employees.

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