Hedge funds’ secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images. Here’s how the people in charge of spending millions on this data find the stuff worth buying.

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BattleFin's Discovery Day packed 1,000 people from hedge funds and alternative-data companies into a pair of ballrooms at the Plaza hotel last week.
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Hedge funds' secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images. Here's how the people in charge of spending millions on this data find the stuff worth buying.

Hedge funds' secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images. Here's how the people in charge of spending millions on this data find the stuff worth buying.

Bradley Saacks | BattleFin's Discovery Day packed 1,000 people from hedge funds and alternative-data companies into a pair of ballrooms at the Plaza hotel last week.

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