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This question may barely meet criteria for Quantitative Finance. Lets hope I got it right.

I am amazed by how much "people data" http://investing.businessweek.com has, such as age, annual compensation, x "relationships" to x, stock options, position, and education, and even address at times. I am interested specifically on collecting similar data related to TSX venture exchange companies from wherever businessWeek gets this data from, however I have no idea where to start.

I am aware of Company data on SEDAR.com and relationship data can be found on http://infoventure.tsx.com/TSXVenture/TSXVentureHttpController?GetPage=PersonSummary&PO_ID=1114524 [ Random user ] However I am stumped on collecting the rest of the data such as age, annual compensation and education. Does anyone know where this information can be found that doesn't come from non-standard form PDFs etc?

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I'm putting this question out of its misery. Its contents are not quantitative finance. The person who asked it does not work quantitive finance. The one person who answered it does not work quantitive finance. – chrisaycock♦ Feb 10 at 15:01

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Most likely they pay third party companies that gather this sort of human data. I suggest reading the book the Numerati by Stephen Baker for more specifics.

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Could you elaborate on what the book says? – chrisaycock♦ Dec 17 '12 at 4:03
It talks about the methods used and what data is gathered and specific names of the main players at the books publish date. You should check it out, very intertaining albeit thought provoking! – Nikos Dec 18 '12 at 0:44

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