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.
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.…