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Does anyone else find it weird when a business like this uses the .org domain? Not to distract from the main discussion, just curious what people think on here.

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It's not a business. It's a stale content marketing effort ran by one of the incumbents in the space who leveraged it as a means to promote themselves in front of their competitors.

Indeed, you are correct (at least about being ran by the incumbents):

> AlternativeData.org is supported and maintained by YipitData and sources its content from hundreds of contributing investors, data providers, and industry professionals.

It would make sense for this to be aimed at data consumers rather than data producers, considering how the advice is, honestly, unrealistic.

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