Eagle Alpha published a white paper detailing case law regarding web crawling and emerging best practices and organized web crawling events in NYC (16 March 2016) and London (7 April 2016).
Eagle Alpha has released a new white paper created by our advisory board member Gene Ekster, CFA on the topic of web crawling and the associated compliance risks. The paper is split into 5 sections:
This article presents Foursquare’s new tool called Place Insights. It uses all of the company’s foot traffic data which can be a powerful analytics tool as we mentioned in our recent article on “How Personal Data is Being Collected.”
Automated crawling of websites (also often referred to as “scraping” or “web-harvesting”) is ubiquitous. Internet search engines use “web crawler” programs (sometimes called “bots” or “spiders”) to automatically copy third-party websites in order to help people easily find sites of interest.
We published several research notes on Garmin last year and our data showed that Garmin hadn’t been able to take share from Fitbit, and the pricing had been very weak.
We have been writing research notes on GoPro since the end of 2014 using online data and analyzing the company’s global performance.
On the 26th of January, we published a report on Electronic Arts (EA) highlighting the decreasing ASP year-on-year for marquee EA games: “Eagle Alpha’s online pricing data shows progressively larger discounting of Madden NFL and FIFA games over the last two years.
We have previously reported on the ascent of satellite imagery and how asset managers are starting to use this type of data in their estimation of revenues of companies in different sectors, including retail, oil and gas, and construction.
The topic of personal data is discussed in this article, particularly new ways of collection and usage.
This article introduces readers to Eagle Alpha’s powerful analytical tool that enables clients to query the entire Twitter archive. The Twitter Search tool can be used to identify trends and spikes in activity about any topic.
his article highlights some of the most actionable research reports that Eagle Alpha published in 2015.
