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Silver Data for Data Scientists
Silver data for data scientists starts with two USGS statistical publications, the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) daily holdings record and the Silver Institute supply-and-demand tables.
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Which silver datasets should data scientists pull first?
Every entry has its own detail record, and the silver data hub indexes the rest of the vertical, including sources written for investors rather than modelers.
Where do supply-side fundamentals come from?
Two USGS publications anchor the fundamentals stack. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - Silver matches that 9/10 with an annual PDF whose country tables parse cleanly into structured production and reserve datasets. The Silver Institute - Silver Supply & Demand statistics round out the picture at quality 7/10 with annual tables splitting demand by application alongside mine production and recycling.
Government publishers dominate this kind of source for a reason: 781 of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs (44.8%) are public datasets.
How do you choose between them?
Pick by job. Fundamental supply and reserve features: the USGS hub monthly, MCS annually, Silver Institute for application-level demand. Long XAGUSD OHLCV for backtests: Stooq. Futures-bar prototyping: Yahoo SI=F, with 429-aware retries.
This page is the silver slice of all data-scientists resources; the silver data hub applies the same rubric to everything else we catalog in the industry.
Straight answers
Where can I get training data for silver price models?
Start with Stooq's long-run daily XAGUSD OHLCV CSVs for the core panel and metals.dev for live spot plus five-plus years of history. Yahoo Finance SI=F bars suit feature prototypes if your client handles HTTP 429 retries.
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