Re:Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative ...
by bostik on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:08PM
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There are quite a few, and I can think of these off the top of my head:
- Real-time weather data from major ports and across the main shipping lines
- Telemetry from crop and soil report systems
- Up-to-date satellite imagery of basically anything large under construction (solar farms, factories, ...)
Provide information like that in a machine-readable, consistent format and you have a business.
Btw... Using satellite images to track car manufacturers' inventory levels is an old idea, used for more than a decade.
Financial data, for example, would be EUR USD spot prices. Non-financial data (i.e. "alternative data") could be healthcare reports which you could theoretically couple to e.g. pharma stocks.