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Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet sell data about company’s credit worthiness and their contact information. Every dataset and every API is its own “product” complete with its own metadata. With this approach for managing information comes excessive complexity. They did a massive...

S&P Platts: Data Aggregation

The commodity world has its own way of carving the world into manageable regions. We are accustomed to thinking that counties are in states, states in countries, and countries in continents. Even that has its exceptions. In the world of commodities (natural gas versus...

S&P Platts: Identity Resolution

If you turn on the news and hear that Brent Crude is trading at $19 a barrel (did it really get to $19 dollars? Yes, it did, we’re living in strange times), it’s very likely that it was Platts that determined this price. Platts are in the “price assessment” business....