This article presents Foursquare’s new tool called Place Insights. It uses all of the company’s foot traffic data which can be a powerful analytics tool as we mentioned in our recent article on “How Personal Data is Being Collected.”
Automated crawling of websites (also often referred to as “scraping” or “web-harvesting”) is ubiquitous. Internet search engines use “web crawler” programs (sometimes called “bots” or “spiders”) to automatically copy third-party websites in order to help people easily find sites of interest.
New data-driven techniques are being continuously implemented by the asset management community.
We published several research notes on Garmin last year and our data showed that Garmin hadn’t been able to take share from Fitbit, and the pricing had been very weak.
We have been writing research notes on GoPro since the end of 2014 using online data and analyzing the company’s global performance.
On the 26th of January, we published a report on Electronic Arts (EA) highlighting the decreasing ASP year-on-year for marquee EA games: “Eagle Alpha’s online pricing data shows progressively larger discounting of Madden NFL and FIFA games over the last two years.
We have previously reported on the ascent of satellite imagery and how asset managers are starting to use this type of data in their estimation of revenues of companies in different sectors, including retail, oil and gas, and construction.
Schroders pointed out that a Data Insights team, which was set up in 2015, could become the company’s key differentiator. The team’s goal is to complement fund managers and analysts in their research, find actionable alternative datasets and extract the hidden information.
The topic of personal data is discussed in this article, particularly new ways of collection and usage.
While traditionally considered a relatively safe investment, recent municipal bankruptcies and defaults have resulted in restructurings of bond obligations.
This article introduces readers to Eagle Alpha’s powerful analytical tool that enables clients to query the entire Twitter archive. The Twitter Search tool can be used to identify trends and spikes in activity about any topic.
his article highlights some of the most actionable research reports that Eagle Alpha published in 2015.
