Descartes Labs, a startup analyzing satellite imagery data, announced that it would make its corn yield forecast available for free and updated every week throughout the 2016 growing season.
On the 13th of October 2015, we published a research note on U.S. auto lenders highlighting customer service issues. Santander Consumer (SC) had the worst consumer complaint and review profile, followed by Ally Financial (ALLY). The two companies had:
Online reviews have become mainstream and consumers are increasingly relying on them when making decisions. This article presents the latest research on the following topics: distribution of negative and positive reviews, sentiment of online reviews and evaluation of the impact on sales.
Twitter data is used by financial industry professionals in a variety of ways. It has been extensively used for fundamental and consumer analysis since the SEC confirmed that companies could use Twitter to announce key information.
On the 15th of July, we produced a research note on the US toy market highlighting “… pressure on licensed brands [as] a headwind for Hasbro in the US.” We showed that Hasbro had lost share amongst the bestselling boys’ toys in the US.
Eagle Alpha has spent over 2 years perfecting indices based on online search activity. By creating baskets of online search terms related to certain topics, Eagle Alpha can build indices that improve existing models and indicators with clients also being able to create proprietary indices.
Jeff Glueck, Foursquare's CEO, published an analysis of the American theme park market using the company's foot traffic data: "We took a look at our data set, which covers both explicit “check-ins” and passive location trails from users who have opted-in to background location use.
On the 3rd of June, we published a research report on Activision Blizzard highlighting the potential success of the company’s latest game, Overwatch.
Baidu Inc. started using its own data in order to gauge China's economy. The goal is to construct better indicators compared to the ones using the official government figures.
Eagle Alpha has spent over 2 years perfecting proprietary indices using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach.
Eagle Alpha gathers alternative data sources to analyse the Auto Industry in different ways, some details are described in our case study.
There is a wide variety of data related to the Auto Industry and not all of it is available via conventional ways.
