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Hidden Prices When Performing a Detailed Crawl
The goal when working with e-commerce data is to build the most complete picture of the online performance of a specific company.
iOS Data Found to be Better Correlated with Company Revenues
In the initial testing process of the predictive value of app data, we evaluated the relationship of the data with a company’s quarterly revenue.
Building Revenue Indicators for US Software Companies using Google Data
The aim of this project was to build revenue indicators for US software companies using online search activity as a barometer of future company sales.
Isolating Organic Consumer Comments in Twitter Data
Eagle Alpha Web Queries is a query based tool that enables our research analysts and clients to search multiple web sources e.g. review sites, blogs, forums, videos and Facebook.
Wells Fargo: Big Data Applications in the Economics/Financial World Part I
The attached report, prepared by the Wells Fargo Economics Group, covers big data applications and utilization in economics and finance.
Interview with Jakob Aungiers, Quant Developer at HSBC
Credit card transactions, web scraping and document text analysis are all the “hot right now” trends for more traditional asset managers to dip their feet into the alternative data pool, and those are the ones I have found myself exploring in the last couple of years.
Legal Considerations around Data Ownership
Bird & Bird, an international law firm, prepared the attached white papers for the European Union TOREADOR project (“TrustwOrthy model-awaRE Analytics Data plafORm”). The aim of the project is to help European companies fully benefit from Big Data Analytics.
Showcase of Consumer Transaction Datasets: Events Recap
Eagle Alpha organized the first showcase events of consumer transaction datasets in NYC (March 23rd, 2017) and London (March 21st, 2017). Five alternative data companies pitched to 100 buyside firms in NYC and 40 in London.
Tech, Machine Learning and Operations Trends for Alternative Data Teams
In this series we want to bring some key Data and Software Engineering topics to our audience. A particular focus will be on cloud services which can be created and deployed just in time, meaning new teams can get off the ground quickly and use best practices.
Newsweek's AI & Data Science Conference
Newsweek and International Business Times held an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Capital Markets conference in London on March 1-2, 2017.
Trade Nowcasting for China’s Trade Balance. Included in Citi's Report on Alternative Data.
Eagle Alpha’s trade data partner employs big data and predictive analytics techniques, and more than 25,000 times series, to forecast trade balance and industrial production statistics.