The case study presented below was prepared by a satellite imagery data analytics company that catalogued and back tested more than one million parking lot images that accounted for 1.5 billion cars over seven years.
In a recent court ruling, LinkedIn was ordered to allow hiQ Labs access public profiles posted on the social media site. The legal battle started in May with LinkedIn issuing a cease and desist letter asking hiQ Labs to stop data scraping.
Using email receipt and Google search data, Eagle Alpha published a research report on July 14th predicting a weaker June quarter for Starbucks versus consensus.
On July 17th, Netflix reported better than expected Q2 results with revenues growing by 36% to $2.67 billion.
On July 4th 2017, Eagle Alpha published a research note analyzing Fitbit’s Q2 with the use of online retail data.
PeerLogix, an advertising technology and data aggregation company, tracks and catalogs over-the-top (OTT) viewership and listenership in order to determine consumer trends and preferences based upon media consumption.
GSAM’s Emerging Markets CORE Equity fund reported impressive results: the returns equaled 52% over a three-year period and assets under management increased by more than 75% in H1 2017.
On July 13th, 2017, Eagle Alpha published a research note analyzing PayPal’s Q2 using email receipt data. Eagle Alpha’s PayPal predictive model suggested better Q2 revenue than consensus estimates.
WorldQuant, a quantitative investment management firm, published an overview article about the alternative data space.
Google Trends is a public web facility based on Google Search that shows how often a particular search term is entered relative to the total search-volume over time across various regions of the world.
Analyzing satellite imagery and obtaining actionable insights is not easy and the main problem is obvious: clouds.
