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.
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).
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.”
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.
