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Interview with an Employment Data Provider
The company’s vision is centered around being the global leader in delivering perfect job market information. We do that with a very unique approach to the online job space in that we only index job openings directly from company websites.
Eagle Alpha's First Alpha Focus Session
Ronan Crosson, Director of Data Analytics at Eagle Alpha, and Thomas Combes, Head of Data Science at Eagle Alpha, previewed the Data Forum’s exclusive Alpha Focus Session on search data to be held on February 28th, 2019.
Interview with a Social Media Data Provider
This vendor is the leader in audience-based social media measurement for financial services firms that want to understand the impact and effectiveness of marketing and social media campaigns on their portfolio investment firms.
Fundamental Analysis with Social Media and Web Data - a Review of 2018
Online and social media content can be used to analyse consumer trends and sentiment. This data can be used to examine fundamental issues that may impact consumer attitudes to a company or brand.
Interview with a Business Insights Data Provider
This vendor’s data tracks executives and alerts asset managers to changes in the C-suite’s potential to deliver positive business outcomes and maintain a highly functional, stable, and performance-driven executive management team.
Philip Brittan from Crux Informatics on Data Integration Challenges
Data is a very complicated area and there is a number of big challenges of different kinds. Investors need to tackle all of these challenges to be successful in using data in their investment strategies.
Insights into China Datasets
In this case study, Eagle Alpha investigates China datasets and explores the insights that have been found.
Peter Greene from Lowenstein Sandler on DDQs
On January 17th, 2019, we hosted our monthly Data Forum webinar with Peter Greene, Vice-Chair of Investment Management Group at Lowenstein Sandler, discussing standardized due diligence questionnaires (DDQs).
Data Quality Testing at Eagle Alpha
On January 17th, 2019, we hosted our monthly Data Forum webinar with Thomas Combes, Head of Data Science at Eagle Alpha, discussing our approach to assessing the quality, robustness, and consistency of data.
Data Sources Highlighted as The Future of Quantitative Analysis
The survey was prepared in collaboration with Coleman Parks and the respondents included Heads/Directors/VPs of Quantitative Analysis, Senior Quantitative Analysts, Data Scientists, and Chief Data Officers from 50 asset managers across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC.
Alternative Data Would Have Helped Call a Bottom in Urban Outfitters
Using web crawl data investors can monitor regular price, markdown and promotional discounting trends across US apparel retail companies. The data provided an early read on improving fundamentals at Urban Outfitters in late 2017 and through 2018.