Data provider
A data provider is an external entity or service that collects, organizes, publishes, or supplies data to other parties or applications.
Investing for Programmers
A financial data provider is a service that gathers, processes, and distributes financial or market information from source institutions.
- How it is used
- Connects programmers to technical and fundamental market data for analysis and commercial data products.
- How deep it goes
- Explains sources, streaming versus filed data, provider trade-offs, and API integration, but stops short of provider-specific implementation detail.
- Examples
- Uses NVDA historical prices, yfinance provider selection, currency rates, treasury rates, and cryptocurrency prices.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure data collection through OpenBB and compare providers while preserving reproducible workflows.
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
A data vendor is an external provider that organizes people or processes to produce labeled or curated data for a customer.
- How it is used
- Guides procurement and operational management of external human preference data.
- How deep it goes
- Explains sourcing, contracting, instructions, and quality risks, but stops short of specifying vendor-selection metrics or annotation procedures.
- Examples
- Uses OpenAI InstructGPT instructions and a multibatch preference-data timeline for an approximately $500,000 contract.
- What you can do after
- Operate preference-data procurement by sourcing vendors, negotiating protections, specifying tasks, and planning iterative quality control.
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