Our second Data Forum was held on March 6th, 2018. This meeting was organized to discuss the topic of educating vendors of alternative data.
The purpose of the first monthly online meeting held on the 20th of February was to discuss several topics at a high level.
This year’s Discovery Day 2018 was held in Miami where global industry leaders shared their extensive knowledge on alternative data to an audience of banks, hedge funds, and asset managers.
We arranged this interview with a provider of mobile & technology data. The vendor tracks more than 3,000 models and 500 brands in 40 countries.
To back-test data, a dataset is divided into a training portion and a testing portion. The typical split of the data is 50/50 or 66/33. A model is built using the training data.
Our CEO attended the Battlefin event in Miami at the end of January 2018. Attendees included anyone interested in alternative data including the sellside (e.g. Jefferies), strategics (e.g. FactSet, S&P), service providers, consultants etc.
Alternative data is non-traditional data that can be used in the investment process. According to our most sophisticated clients, there are already 1,200 alternative datasets available. We split the datasets into 24 categories.
In January 2018, The Bank of England published a working paper (attached) titled ‘News and Narratives in Financial Systems: Exploiting Big Data for Systemic Risk Assessment.’
On November 30th, 2017, Eagle Alpha organized the first one-day event dedicated to how equity investors are using alternative data. The event was hosted by FactSet at their London offices.
We just published the 3rd Edition of our "Alternative Data: Use Cases" report. The 90-page report details the best applications of alternative data, based on our five years of experience.
We arranged this interview with a provider of geolocation data to learn more about potential applications. The company is connecting real-world signals, from sensors to location data at scale, in one platform.
