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Alternative data
Data from outside financial statements and market prices, used in research.
- Building a point-in-time company dataset for back-testsA back-test is only as honest as the dates in its data. This guide shows how a dated, write-once record lets you key company signals by when they were known and query as of a date.
- Company signals in credit research and counterparty monitoringPublic signals can flag a borrower under strain before the next report. This guide builds a watchlist from them and shows how to read each trigger beside your own credit file.
- Following private funding with SEC Form D filingsForm D is one of the few primary records of private fundraising. This guide explains what it holds, how to read its amounts and dates, and where the record stops.
- Reading technology adoption as a signal of vendor revenueFor a vendor whose product shows on its customers' websites, installs and net adds are a dated proxy for customer growth. Here are the measure, the query and how to read it.
- Using hiring data in equity research between earningsA company reports four times a year and hires every day. Here is how to turn its job postings into a research signal you can test and trust.
- Alternative data due diligence questionnaires, question by questionThe FISD questionnaire topic by topic, with the evidence each question calls for, and how Neudata and Eagle Alpha handle questionnaires once vendors have answered them.
- Alternative data on Bloomberg: what buyers should knowBloomberg names its alternative datasets and the routes that carry them. This guide sets out what each route gives a buyer and what to test before relying on it.
- BattleFin: how the alternative data marketplace worksBattleFin runs alternative data events and a platform for finding, testing and buying datasets. This guide describes both from its own pages and gives a plan for each meeting.
- Eagle Alpha: a guide for alternative data buyersA buyer's guide to Eagle Alpha as it describes itself: the three buyer tracks, the platform and advisory, the compliance tool and how to test a dataset you find there.
- Neudata: how funds use it to find alternative dataA guide for funds weighing a data scouting service: what Neudata says it offers, how buyers use its research and compliance tools, and where its reports end and your own tests begin.
- Open:FactSet Marketplace: a guide for data buyersFactSet describes its marketplace as one ecosystem for data, applications and workflows. This guide sets out how it works for a buyer and what its entity mapping means for you.
- S&P Global Marketplace: a guide for data buyersS&P Global's Marketplace is a discovery platform for its own and curated third-party data. This guide describes it from S&P Global's pages and works through a query profile.
- What alternative data scouts look for in a new datasetWhat Neudata and Eagle Alpha publish about how funds judge a new dataset, set beside five checks you can run on a company-level dataset, with the Fokals tables as the example.
- Eagle Alpha vs BattleFin for alternative data sourcingTwo services a fund can use to find alternative data, set side by side as each describes itself on 4 October 2026, with a test of a candidate dataset that holds on either route.
- Neudata vs Eagle Alpha for alternative data discoveryTwo services that help funds find and vet datasets, compared only on what each publishes about itself, with a way to test both on your own research question before you choose.
- LinkUp alternatives for job market dataLinkUp and Fokals both take job postings where the employer publishes them. What each is built for, how the two records line up field by field, and four other sources of job market data.
- Revelio Labs alternatives for workforce dataRevelio Labs models who works at a company; job postings show whom it wants next. This guide sets out what each kind of source answers, with four alternatives and a worked measure.
- Thinknum alternatives for web-sourced alternative dataThinknum indexes the data trails companies leave on the web. Here is what its site states today, which other vendors cover similar ground, and how to test a second feed on the companies you track.
- Alternative dataJob postings, web traffic, card transactions and other data from outside financial statements and prices. How investors use it and the five checks to run on any source.
- Due diligence questionnaire (DDQ)The questionnaire a buyer sends a data vendor to check sourcing, rights, personal data and MNPI. What it asks, which standard forms exist and how to answer with documents.
- Hiring dataJob postings read as a dated record of where a company is investing. How the data is collected and labelled, the mistakes that distort it and what it shows.