The goal when working with e-commerce data is to build the most complete picture of the online performance of a specific company.
The attached white paper was prepared by Webhose.io, a company providing access to structured web data. This paper gives an overview of technological issues associated with extracting web data from various and fragmented sources.
On the 29th of July, we published a research note on Fitbit highlighting the company’s success both in activity tracker and running watch categories. Two new products were launched in Q1 of 2016, the Blaze and the Alta, and gained significant market shares in Q2.
On the 12th of August, we published a research note on HPQ highlighting changes across four product categories and the company confirmed our findings when it reported its earnings on the 25th of August:
inkedIn decided to sue 100 individuals for using bots collecting user profiles.
German fund manager, Catana Capital, decided to launch a hedge fund solely based on Big Data analysis. The idea is to process massive datasets using artificial intelligence algorithms and make investment decisions according to independent signals. Catana Capital is pursuing a four-step strategy.
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:
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.
