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Posts in this category look at opportunities within alternative data for finance and educate about alternative datasets on Quandl. Alternative data is not traditionally considered financial data but nonetheless offers investors market insights. It is often quite “raw”, meaning that the investor has to do data mining or data science to extract insight. Examples include: consumer trends, data accumulated from sensors, and business operations data.

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    Stories in Data: A Roller Coaster Ride for Nickel

    by Nasdaq Data Link April 21, 2022
    by Nasdaq Data Link April 21, 2022

    Nickel has been on quite a roller coaster ride recently. The price of the metal plummeted in 2020 during the pandemic and then rose steadily through 2021 to reach a seven-year high.…

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    Investing in innovators: how patent valuation changes the game

    by Nasdaq Data Link May 11, 2021
    by Nasdaq Data Link May 11, 2021

    Innovative businesses are more likely to outperform regressive ones in the long run—this assumption is something akin to gospel for companies and investors alike.  But a problem arises when investors…

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    The future of data privacy in alternative data

    by Nasdaq Data Link September 22, 2020
    by Nasdaq Data Link September 22, 2020

    An interview with Peter Greene We had the opportunity to interview Peter Greene, Vice Chair of the Investment Management Group at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, on the topic of data privacy…

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    The best FX datasets on Nasdaq Data Link: volume, flow, swap and more

    by Jameson L. May 7, 2020
    by Jameson L. May 7, 2020

    Over the years, we’ve scouted the forex landscape to bring you a world class portfolio of FX data products. Nasdaq Data Link’s FX data includes foreign exchange volume and flow…

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    Finally: A comprehensive, global FX volume database

    by Tammer Kamel May 3, 2019
    by Tammer Kamel May 3, 2019

    There is a paradigm change towards increased transparency in the currency market. CLS has just published the first true global foreign exchange (FX) volume database. Commercially available for the first…

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    The Unbearable Transience of Alpha

    by Tammer Kamel July 25, 2016
    by Tammer Kamel July 25, 2016

    In 2004 I enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame for an article I wrote called The Tao of Alpha, in which I explained the concept of alpha as a zero-sum…

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