KNOWNAT RESEARCH NOTES

How data becomes
research infrastructure.

Short technical notes on point-in-time data, alternative sources, provenance, and backtesting without hidden future information.

01 / Point-in-time

The backtest mistake hidden inside revised data

Why a clean historical series can still leak information from the future.

Article in preparation
02 / Data engineering

Today’s live feed is tomorrow’s archive

A practical model for capturing, timestamping, and preserving alternative data.

Article in preparation
03 / Earth observation

A satellite image is useful. A time series is research.

Turning imagery into comparable, timestamped numerical observations.

Article in preparation

BUILD WITH THE DATA

Query the source.
Keep the timestamp.

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