In 2021, Eagle Alpha’s Data Strategy team conducted several alternative data-centric surveys for buyside firms considering topics such as data strategy, data science and engineering, and legal & compliance.
Ninety-two percent of investment organizations—including hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital—that use alternative data to inform their decision-making do so either to a moderate or significant extent.
2021 was a highly eventful year for the Data Strategy team here at Eagle Alpha.
This paper outlines the importance of alternative data sources in the understanding of global supply chains, considering some of the more unique and unstructured datasets that are available to global teams.
Data has, variously, been compared to oil, sunlight, air, and water. Under scrutiny, none of these analogies is a perfect fit, but they do underscore data’s potential as a competitive differentiator, an engine for innovation, and a driver of business value.
This paper will provide insight into China’s changing data landscape regarding regulations, always linking back to the connection between alternative data availability, collection, and distribution.
In this paper, we focus on alternative sources of data to support governance analysis of companies. We lean on the MSCI definition of governance across corporate governance and corporate behavior as means of further dissecting the topic.
The amount of data produced each day is staggering. Every second, we contribute a constant drip of an additional 1.7MB of data to the deluge. In that same second, Google receives 63,000 search queries. In a single workday, we collectively send out over 306 billion emails.
It is estimated that approximately 90% of data in the world today was created in the last two years. Data has the power to solve some of the most pressing challenges facing society.
This paper is a compilation of alternative data insights relevant to engineers and data scientists from Eagle Alpha’s vast library of content on the Data Strategy solution.
On the 12th and 13th of October, 2021, Eagle Alpha hosted their ONE Conference in Lowenstein Sandler’s offices in midtown New York. This event was the first in-person conference back for Eagle Alpha with several conferences over the past two years taking place across virtual channels.
Undoubtedly, alternative data has become more accessible to data buyers of all shapes and sizes, with the most accessible avenue into alternative data being web crawling, or web scraping as it’s also known.
