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Alternative Data

Score 15.9 / 100 14 providers +3 via APIs 6 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (14)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
GitDealFlowVenture CapitalDeal FlowStartupsGitHub1 API68.2
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
RolleeCompanyOpen FinanceIncome VerificationEmployment Verification2 APIs44.6
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Nasdaq Data LinkFinancial DataStock MarketMarket DataEconomic Data3 APIs36.5BitvoreFinancial DataMarket IntelligenceNews API12 APIs35.7ApptopiaCompanyMobileApp Store IntelligenceMarket Intelligence1 API33.7SteadyAPIDataFinanceStock MarketSocial Media2 APIs32.3Quiver QuantitativeFinancial DataInvestment ResearchMarket Data1 API30.4ThinknumCompanyFinancial DataInvestment Research1 API27.0
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
HundredXCustomer ExperienceConsumer InsightsMarket Research1 API23.7PREDIK Data-DrivenWeb IntelligenceData EnrichmentCompany DataB2B Data1 API14.6
Minimal 4 Almost no public developer surface
TrustIQCompanyFintechCredit ScoringFraud Prevention10.0Second MeasureCompanyCloudAnalytics9.2YipitdataCompanyMarket IntelligenceData Provider5.5DeepSparksCompanyFintechLendingCredit Scoring0.0

APIs with this tag (6)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Bloomberg Data License (DL / BEAP)Bulk reference, pricing, regulatory, and alternative-data delivery service covering over 50 million securit...56.3
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Bloomberg Data License APIProvides programmatic access to Data License content via REST API, SFTP, or cloud providers, with available...34.8Reddit Data APIREST/JSON API for fetching Reddit posts, comments, voting data, subreddit statistics, and user activity. En...32.3Bloomberg Hypermedia API (HAPI)Provides programmatic access to Data License content with a combination of request-response and subscriptio...31.1Quiver Quantitative APIThe Quiver Quantitative API provides REST access to alternative financial datasets including Congressional ...30.4Thinknum Data APIToken-authenticated REST API over data.thinknum.com for querying Thinknum's alternative datasets. Endpoints...27.0

Companies reaching this through an API (3)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Alternative Data” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Bloomberg Bloomberg News Bloomberg Professional Service

Score breakdown

Frequency
35.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
32.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Financial Data 10 co-occurrences Market Data 6 co-occurrences Analytics 6 co-occurrences Company 7 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag14
Api tag6

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