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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 and International Business Times held an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Capital Markets conference in London on March 1-2, 2017.
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.
Starting with macro-related alternative data, we investigate the appeal of web search data to predict macroeconomic indicators which in academic literature shows some promising results.
According to Eagle Alpha, their China Auto Insight (CAI) dataset is provided through an exclusive partnership with a leading Chinese financial automotive consultant.
Winton Capital Management organized a data science workshop at its San Francisco office that opened last year.
On 10 March 2017, Citi published a report titled “Searching for Alpha: Big Data.” 9 pages of the report are devoted to Eagle Alpha and our database of alternative data providers, including detailed case studies on 5 data sources.
