The Numbers Game: Big Data and the Business of Sport | Collecting big data – 3.2 External data

External data is data sourced from outside the organisation and can be either public – and free to access from, for example, the government – or proprietary, where information is collected and owned by a third party. For the latter, third parties can range from a research agency to a commercial partner, and typically they make data available on a paid-access basis.

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