Articles
Eagle Alpha Legal Wrap - April 2021
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
A Comparison of Major Consumer Transaction Vendors for Merchant Analysis
This report highlights the major US and European consumer transaction, merchant-level data vendors. The report provides important details such as data sources, panel information, history, comments on any biases in the data, coverage, and guidelines on pricing.
Eagle Alpha Legal Wrap - March 2021
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
DocuSign: Consumer Panel Data Used to Predict Results
Hatched Analytics uses data from opt-in panelists to predict company revenue and KPIs. For DocuSign, a prediction was provided for subscription revenue that has proven to be accurate and better than consensus forecasts.
A Fundamental Firm's Approach to Quant Investing (Case Study)
Every month, Eagle Alpha publishes a case study exploring the successful implementation of alternative data by a buyside fund. The information presented below comes from news articles and other public sources.
Data for ESG Investing
In this report we provide an overview of ESG data for the buyside, covering both traditional scoring providers such as MSCI and Sustainalytics as well as alternative data sources such as web data, satellite data, and patent data.
Applying Newsfeed Sentiment for Algorithmic Investment
Expert Hub contributor Erez Katz, CEO and Co-Founder of Lucena Research recently published an article on Applying Newsfeed Sentiment for Algorithmic Investment. Erez outlines Lucena’s approach to sentiment analysis, the challenges encountered, and solutions used to generate results.
Alt data quants aren’t left out by WallStreetBets
In an article, Alt data quants aren’t left out by WallStreetBets, Expert Hub contributor Saeed Amen discusses sources of information that are useful in relation to the retail trading phenomenon of recent months. Saeed's article is attached and the original article is posted here.
I know what you bought at Chipotle
This article is about algorithms using consumer transaction data.
Alt Data for Tech Hardware & Equipment
This case study deck outlines alternative datasets that can be used by investors to monitor the technology hardware and equipment markets.