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The Future of Data Evaluation is Here

What if alt data evaluation itself became a product? What if every dataset came with a built-in explanation of how it performs, visible through a trusted, standardized lens, before any raw data changes hands? That’s the core idea behind Exabel’s latest offering…

Clarity replacing chaos.

Data Buyers

For Investment teams, Data Seekers means speed and confidence. You can focus on the “why,” not the “how” of the data product and cut your evaluation time by 50%.

Data Sellers

For Data Vendors, Data Seekers means your data tells its own story. Securely, independently, and credibly. Validated by Exabel’s Research team and contextualized for Buyers.

Trusted · Standardized · Transparent

The Exabel Evaluation Standard

Our team, made up of former sell-side and buy-side analysts, starts by asking the fundamental question: “What is this data actually measuring in the real world?” We don’t map metrics because they correlate; we map them because there’s a business-logic reason they should correlate.

Once those links are established, we model the relationship over time and surface the historical performance:

Short-term metrics like MAPE and directional hit rate for recency and comparability.
Long-term context like absolute and YoY correlations, mean-absolute error, and p-values to understand durability.

Bottom-Up Discovery

One KPI, Many Signals

Imagine you’re an analyst covering Nike. You care about DTC revenue. On Exabel, you can open that single company-KPI pair and instantly see every dataset that covers it.

Foot traffic. Consumer Spending. Web and app metrics. You can evaluate how each of those signals performed around earnings releases. Which ones capture directional changes? Check the hit-rate. Which ones are particularly accurate? Look at MAPE. Which ones stayed stable across market regimes? Consider the historical correlations. You’re not guessing or rebuilding the relationships; they’re right there.

Top-Down Discovery

One Dataset, Many Companies

You’re a data strategist. Maybe you’re looking to add transaction data or another new dataset.

You want to show your investment teams how the data performs, but you can’t access the proprietary data without triggering compliance. On Exabel, you can explore coverage across every company and KPI the dataset touches. Maybe you see that the consumer-spend metric aligns beautifully with apparel and restaurants, but less so with utilities or autos. Now, you can make better recommendations according to your analysts’ coverage areas.

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The Decision Compass

The biggest opportunity in alternative data isn’t about finding one best dataset, it’s about combining many datasets into coherent insights.

Even the largest teams can struggle to evaluate vendors manually. With this overview, a data strategist can look at an entire sector and say with confidence which vendors are likely to be additive to the team’s strategy in minutes, not months. For the first time, data discovery meets the decision makers with the insights they need. And the vendors featured there – they’re in front of the most relevant buyers at the most relevant time. That’s the kind of visibility no whitepaper can buy.

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Join the Movement

If you’re a Vendor who wants your data to earn that first “Michelin star,” or a Buyer who wants to see your next dataset through a lens of trusted evaluation, come see us at the Exabel booth. We’ll show you live how this workflow looks, how your team can reduce evaluation cycles, and how the best datasets are already accelerating through the platform.

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Discovery, Evaluation, Integration

Productized Alternative Data Evaluation