Alternative Data News and Insight

We constantly hear concerns related to scraping. Many of these concerns are still expressed at a high level, indicating broad uncertainty even in the face of the hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation decision.

The buyside is increasingly concerned with the quality of the alternative data that it collects. We have analyzed some of the data quality issues commonly raised by our buyside clients, whether they are looking to improve the performance of established data teams or considering building such a team. In this article we consider a few of the approaches already in play with (and potential approaches of) sophisticated buyers and sellers of alternative data.