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Alternative Data: Market Statistics
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Market insight from Neudata, the allternative data experts.
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Number of alternative data vendors
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Source: Neudata Scout; current as of 1 Oct 2020
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Number of providers
1533
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Number of alternative datasets for finance
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Source: Neudata Scout; current as of 1 Oct 2020
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Number of datasets
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The following charts provide statistics based on a subset of Neudata's metadata. Sample sizes are denoted by "N" in each chart.
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Total universe of alternative datasets by commercial release date
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Source: Neudata Scout; current as of 1 Oct 2020
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N=1119
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Original Availability
Number of datasets
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2010 or older297
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2011 - 2013405
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2014486
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2015569
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2016684
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2017813
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2018950
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20191053
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2020 (Q1-3)1119
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Percentage of datasets covering each asset class
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Source: Neudata Scout; current as of 1 Oct 2020
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Some datasets are counted more than once due to asset class crossover
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Asset Class% of datasets
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Cryptocurrency4%
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Commodity18%
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Fixed income20%
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FX18%
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Private equity63%
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Public equity88%
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Real estate11%
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Types of alternative datasets
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Source: Neudata Scout; current as of 1 Oct 2020
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Note that some datasets are counted in multiple categories.
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Type% of datasets
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Crowdsourced9%
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Economic21%
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ESG13%
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Event18%
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Financial products
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Fund flows3%
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Fundamental14%
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Internet of things3%
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Location8%
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News15%
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Primary research11%
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Satellite aerial7%
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Search14%
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Sentiment10%
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Social media9%
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Transactional14%
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Weather1%
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Web-tracking 15%
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Web-scraping26%
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Price of alternative datasets
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Source: Neudata Scout; current as of 1 Oct 2020
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Note that some datasets are available at multiple price-points.
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Price% of datasets
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Free7%
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Below $25k/year38%
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$26k-$50k/year30%