Historical datasets are expensive, hard to find

posted by gigadata , 1095 days ago , show insights

With all the WallStreetBets hype I've been developing/testing automated investment/trading strategies in crypto/stocks. I was struggling to get large amounts of data cheaply like total historical stock/crypto prices or historical news, eCommerce pricing and stock levels. To resolve this I had to rely on heavy scraping or work with a variety of vendors who specialise in different datasets which increases infrastructure cost, risks getting IP blocked, increases load on the target server and increases data sourcing cost. I spent more time managing scrapers, bots and data streams instead of working on the analysis, research and building my app
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