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COVID-19’s Economic Impact (Thus Far)

Over the past months, we’ve watched the dramatic and unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on society, the economy and markets. Through these waves of uncertainty, our curiosity around how these effects will manifest in the world’s data continues unabated. Based on input from industry insiders and Quandl’s data science team, here are the five categories...

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QUANDL NEWS Jun 05 2019

Update to Quandl Privacy Policy

As a Quandl customer or registered user, the protection of your personal data and privacy is critically important to us. Reflecting Quandl’s acquisition by Nasdaq several months ago, we're writing to inform you that as a member of the Nasdaq family of companies, Quandl is migrated effective June 5, 2019, to the global "Nasdaq Inc., and Affiliated Companies Privacy Policy" which you can read in full here. Our updated policy documents Nasdaq’s global practices to protect personal data and respect individuals’ privacy rights in accordance with global legal requirements and our ethical standards. From a customer experience perspective, this change...

Data alternatives – and alternative data – to use during U.S. government shutdowns
ALTERNATIVE DATA Feb 12 2019

Data alternatives – and alternative data – to use during U.S. government shutdowns

The US government shutdown ended on January 25, but with funding only restored until this Friday (February 15), analysts, economists, and other data-dependent specialists may be again in need of reliable alternatives. The 35-day shutdown was the longest ever and left many users - even the Federal Reserve - without the data needed for investment and policy-making decisions.  The most notable gaps were in data collected and released by of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Census Bureau, both under the Commerce Department. Also sidelined were the Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service and its Economic Research...

QUANDL NEWS Dec 06 2018

Quandl: the next chapter

A lot has changed in the last five years. In 2013 when we launched the Quandl website, we were motivated by a simple vision: making data easy to find and easy to use. It sounds obvious today, but at the time it was quite revolutionary; those were the days of FTP, and CD-ROM, and PDF data tables. Today of course every major data vendor has a web front-end, and a search interface, and a cloud API, and integrations with end-user apps to make data consumption easy. In 2015 when we launched the Quandl data marketplace, we were motivated by a...

QUANDL NEWS Dec 04 2018

Quandl Acquired by Nasdaq to Advance Use of Alternative Data

It has been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to reach out to our entire base of over 400,000 users across the globe. Today I’m delighted to announce that Quandl has been acquired by Nasdaq. Our mission has always been to enable data-driven investing, and now, with Nasdaq’s institutional backing, we will be able to grow and scale faster, with more data and richer functionality on Quandl. Nasdaq’s unique position within the global capital markets will bring us reach, assets, and technology so we can better serve you. Everything is business as usual: our data, our APIs, our website,...

UNCATEGORIZED Nov 07 2018

Cutting-edge Quandl-CLS dataset opens new forex frontiers

More than 200 attendees - representing major FX trading desks, liquidity and execution providers, and buy-side firms - joined the Quandl-CLS “New Frontiers in FX Data” webinar to learn how the new data from forex settlement giant CLS have been changing forex trading, risk management, execution, and more. Quandl Chief Data Officer Abraham Thomas and special guest Michael Melvin, Executive Director of the Master of Finance program at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management and former senior executive at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors, led an engaging discussion on how we can finally use data to gain true insight...

ALTERNATIVE DATA Oct 19 2018

Announcing the Third Annual Quandl Data Conference

The industry-leading event for data-driven investing is coming in February. Our co-founder and Chief Data Officer Abraham Thomas shares why he is particularly excited by this year's conference. We’re so excited to announce that the third annual Quandl Data Conference is happening on February 28th, 2019, again at Convene’s West 46th Street location. This is our flagship event, formerly known as the Alternative Data Conference. Why the name change, you might ask? “Alternative” is a label that is becoming less appropriate everyday. For our customers, data is the fuel that runs their business , no matter what prefix you give...

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