Quandl Announces Series B Financing Round of USD 12m
Hedgeweek
Hedgeweek
Not that we’ll get in the habit of writing about ourselves, but we figured this news would qualify. We raised $12 million in Series B funding and have welcomed Naren Gupta of Nexus Venture Partners to our board of directors. Read More
Wall Street’s Insatiable Lust: Data, Data, Data
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
Bradley Hope from the Wall Street Journal unveils a new species: The Data Hunter. He who roams the earth in search of alternative datasets to feed Wall Street’s lust for data, data, data. Read More
Fake Accounts and Artisanal Data
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
With algorithms and artifical intelligence seemingly poised to replace humans in the investment world, Matt Levine highlights the very human aspect of the hunt for data. The robot shouts “BRING ME MORE DATA” to the human. But at least the human is still involved. Read More
In Defence of Hedge-fund Data Mining
The Financial Times
The Financial Times
Alexandra Scaggs from the Financial Times offers this thoughtful piece on the implications of alternative data: ethical, legal and otherwise. Though it’s easy to assume yet more loss of consumer privacy, she rightly asks if what hedge funds are doing is any different from targeted advertising or government surveillance. Read More
Automated Earnings Estimates From Retail Transactions
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Do you eagerly wait for analyst estimates each quarter? Tokyo-based Nowcast Inc. is aiming to crunch millions of retail transactions to automate earnings’ predictions for some 200 Japanese companies later this year. In 2017, they hope to include another 1,000 companies in China and the US. And so begins the end of analyst estimates… Read More
The Eternal Quest for Unique Investment Insights
Investment Magazine
Investment Magazine
Have you heard this one before? Mining alpha from academic research papers. A small group of investors believe investment insights await deep within tens of thousands of research papers produced each year from universities worldwide. It’s no small feat to sift through academic research from the present and the past. Will such an effort literally pay off? Read More
The Next Platform for Innovation is Wi-Fi
Medium
Medium
Surprisingly, Wi-Fi is a word hardly mentioned when ruminating on the Inernet of Things and the explosion of data, but is it not the powerful catalyst that makes the transfer of all this data possible? In an ode to wi-fi, read on to see the gold in them there hills. Read More
Hedge Fund Mining Draws Ire; Is The ‘Alternative-Data’ Playing Field Rigged?
Benzinga
Benzinga
And now for the contrarian view: Benzinga likens alternative data to insider trading and argues that expensive alternative data isn’t truly public information. What do you think? Read More
7Park Data Now Mines TV Viewing Habits of Over 1 Million OTT Subscribers
7 PARK DATA BLOG AND INSIGHTS
7 PARK DATA BLOG AND INSIGHTS
For investors in entertainment and media, the granular and never-before-seen nature of this TV data is enticing. Our friends at 7Park have just launched the first “TV Intelligence” dataset. Get up close and personal with the likes of Netflix and Hulu. Read More