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Data Sourcing & Alternative Data

20 articles on satellite imagery, web scraping, social media analysis, and innovative data collection methods.

1

Satellite Imagery for Foot-Traffic Proxies: A Guide to Pre-Processing

2

Using Credit-Card Receipts Data to Estimate Same-Store Sales

3

Web-Scraping Supply-Chain Clues: Shipping Manifests, Bill of Lading, AIS

4

Audio Sentiment Analysis of Earnings Calls: From Raw WAV to Alpha

5

Social Media Fire-Hose: Filtering Noise vs Signal on X/Twitter

6

ESG Scores from Textual Disclosures with Zero-Shot Classifiers

7

Crowdsourcing Data Annotation for Niche Alternative Datasets

8

Real-Time News Feeds: Latency Considerations for Event-Driven Trading

9

IoT Sensor Streams in Commodity Trading—Weather Stations to Soil Moisture

10

Payment Rails Metadata as a Leading Indicator for Retail Spending

11

Merging Heterogeneous Data Sources with Entity Resolution Techniques

12

Handling Survivorship Bias in Alternative-Data Backtests

13

Licensing Pitfalls: Legal Aspects of Scraping and Reselling Data

14

Synthetic Data Generation for Rare Market Events

15

Graph Databases for Linking Company, Insider, and Supply-Chain Entities

16

Data Provenance: Building Lineage Tracking for Regulatory Compliance

17

Leveraging Open Government Data Sets for Macro Trading Signals

18

Using Google Trends and Search Volumes as Momentum Filters

19

NLP-Based Extraction of KPI Mentions from 10-K Filings

20

Economic Value Added of Each Alternative Data Type: A Cost-Benefit Framework