Your quant team ingests daily satellite parking-lot counts for retail names. Which data infrastructure control is MOST critical before promoting the feed to production alpha?
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Alt-data dies in production without PIT availability times, SLA watches, and coverage metadata.
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Full Explanation
Satellite and other alt-data feeds require rigorous point-in-time semantics (when was the observation knowable?), coverage bias controls, and operational monitoring. Overwriting history destroys research reproducibility.