We set out to create a data product for the mobile telecoms industry: helping operators understand how their own and their competitor’s networks perform for their end-customers.
On July 17th 2018, Eagle Alpha organized a working group meeting attended by 10 asset management firms to discuss the drafting of a standardized trial agreement between asset managers and data vendors.
The purpose of this meeting held on July 12th was to discuss the legal side of the geolocation data as we received a lot of inquiries on the back of the Verizon news.
It is highlighted that GSAM receives credit card data on a monthly basis with a six-day lag giving it a potential informational advantage compared to only using quarterly corporate earnings announcements.
On July 10th 2018, Eagle Alpha organized an online meeting attended by seventeen asset managers to discuss the topic of dataset pricing. Eagle Alpha’s CEO, Emmett Kilduff, delivered the opening presentation which was followed by a group discussion.
The UK government published a new Data Ethics Framework to set principles for how data should be used in the public sector.
The purpose of this meeting held on June 27th, 2018 was to kick off the project of developing a metadata schema for both data buyers and vendors.
On May 31st 2018, we organized our second Data Showcase event in NYC for asset managers and data vendors. Over 530 1-on-1s took place and our three buyside panels along with our expert panel provided excellent insights into the alternative data space.
This data can provide an insight into long-term trends, as well as the most recent trading performance, and is based on metrics such as average selling price (ASP) and share of “bestselling” products in a category, as ranked by the website provider.
Eagle Alpha correctly predicted TJX results using consumer transaction and online search data.
On May 30th 2018, we organized our first in-person Data Forum conference for buyside firms to discuss important alternative data topics with peers.
