By
Dallán Ryan
Corporate
By
Dallán Ryan
Use Cases
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Improving Capabilities of Satellite Imagery
Analyzing satellite imagery and obtaining actionable insights is not easy and the main problem is obvious: clouds.
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Dallán Ryan
Legal & Compliance
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Interview with Alvaro Kurth, KYC and Compliance Expert at 4Stop
We have seen a significant drive for competition and innovation in the financial system. PSD2 is leading to an evolution of strong customer authentication and digital identity management and control where classic banks no longer own the end-to-end value chain.
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Dallán Ryan
Legal & Compliance
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Web scraping case: hiQ Labs vs. LinkedIn
hiQ Labs is a tech startup that collects public LinkedIn profiles and sells analytics to companies wishing to improve management of their workforces (e.g. reduce turnover, increase organizational agility).
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Dallán Ryan
Legal & Compliance
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Alternative Data and Data Protection Regulation
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to be implemented on May 25th 2018, is designed to ensure and strengthen data protection procedures for individuals within the EU.
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Dallán Ryan
Technical Insights
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Constructing Predictive Macro Indices based on Google Search Data
Eagle Alpha analysts have spent over three years finding the best way to use online search data to predict economic indicators. Eagle Alpha has devised its own proprietary methodology that leverages all relevant academic research, as well as accepted best practices in the field.
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Dallán Ryan
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Weaknesses of Crawled Data
Crawled data is one of the most widely used categories of alternative data. It is relatively inexpensive to collect and can often provide a strong signal for consumer related companies.
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Dallán Ryan
Technical Insights
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Constructing Eagle Alpha’s UK Jobs Index
Eagle Alpha analysts have spent over three years finding the best way to use online search data to predict economic indicators. Eagle Alpha has devised its own proprietary methodology that leverages all relevant academic research, as well as accepted best practices in the field.
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Dallán Ryan
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The Dynamic Nature of Google Trends Data
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.
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Dallán Ryan
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Web Data Revealed Ghost Recon’s Weak Launch
On March 23rd 2017, Eagle Alpha published a research note analyzing the launch of Ubisoft’s (UBI:FP) flagship game for the quarter, Ghost Recon Wildlands. The game significantly underperformed against last year’s major launch, the Division, on key online metrics.
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Dallán Ryan
Legal & Compliance
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Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information
Asset managers have been integrating alternative datasets in their processes but they should be highly attentive and avoid sources that contain personally identifiable information (PII).
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Dallán Ryan
Use Cases
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Reddit Data Included in Eagle Alpha Web Queries Tool
Eagle Alpha Web Queries is a query based tool that enables clients to obtain analytics on over 90 million web sources including: blogs, image and video sites, forums, review sites, social media and news sites. It is especially useful when analyzing consumer reactions to new releases.
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Dallán Ryan