How does the digital economy create “alternative data”?

New sources of digital information improve investment decisions – to understand how they add value, we need to understand how they are created.

Peter Went
Towards Data Science
5 min readApr 26, 2019

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Alternative data is a buzzword, yet it wields enormous potential not only for investors and businesses, but also for governments and…

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Data science rōnin. 浪人 I teach machines to learn and people to solve problems. Analytics, strategic leadership, machine learning, alternative data, and yoga.