Winton Workshop: Using Technology to Reform Economics
Winton Capital Management organized a data science workshop at its San Francisco office that opened last year.
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.
Trade nowcasting indicators provide valuable insights into international trade and industrial production.
In our recent conversations with industry partners, there is one issue that comes up repeatedly – the issue of explanation, i.e. explanation of machine learning models, the associated transparency and trust.
The data provides unparalleled granularity on shipping trends in a very timely fashion. This has demonstrated a strong relationship with multiple economic variables including trade balances and company revenues.
Trade nowcasting indicators provide valuable insights into international trade and industrial production.
Asset managers use information derived from satellite data analytics providers to assist in their estimation of revenues of companies in various sectors, including retail, oil and gas and construction.
NN Investment Partners, asset management division of NN Group N.V. with AUM of approximately $224 billion as of September 2016, pointed out the gains it achieved by using online news and sentiment analysis in its investment process.
Gurraj Singh Sangha, quant trader and data scientist, prepared the below presentation in order to explain recent trends in quantamental investing.
On 22 Nov 2016, Eagle Alpha published a note on Lululemon highlighting the following potential implications: “Lululemon has seen same-store sales (SSS) growth decelerate since the beginning of 2016, and Q2 numbers particularly disappointed.
On 5 Dec 2016, we published a note on Finish Line using Google Trends data. The figure below shows that our trends signal pointed to a strong uptrend prior to the August 2016 quarter when the company reported better than expected results.
Satellite data company provides investors with actionable insights on year-over-year traffic trends based on proprietary quantitative analysis of satellite data, retail parking lot imagery, store locations, and climate data.