The Download 16: TSLA Production Tracker, YipitData Adds Email Receipt Panel, 8 New Datasets
New Datasets YipitData integrates one of the largest and fastest growing email receipt panels into its data offering, expanding coverage and increasing product granularity and accuracy. (Full announcement) Providers Added to the...
New Datasets
- YipitData integrates one of the largest and fastest growing email receipt panels into its data offering, expanding coverage and increasing product granularity and accuracy. (Full announcement)
- Omney Data - Web data tracking retailer pricing and promotional activity/discounting.
- Bloomberg Tesla Tracker - Tracks Model 3 production by counting VIN sequences across National Highway Traffic Safety Administration registrations, social media, and user submissions.
- Verbatim Advisory Group - Survey data focused on business services, consumer products, retail & restaurants, industrials & energy, and TMT.
- Caserta - Builds alternative data implementation systems for hedge funds and tier-1 banks.
- Moody’s Data Alliance - Data portal tracking commercial and industrial loans to private companies. (Integrity Research, subscription required)
- AlphaLetters - Research provider that manually reviews and summarizes top academic papers on quant investment strategy.
- See full public database of 277 data providers.
- VisibleAlpha, a research interface, announces investment from HSBC, joining a group of several other sell-side investors. (Intergrity Research, subscription required)
- Neudata, a data consultant, launches a use-case research service for investors to apply alternative datasets for different investment narratives. (Neudata)
- Autotrader (LON:AUTO) - Tracks listing counts, dealer counts, key product penetration rates, and UK used car transactions. (YipitData)
New Jobs
- Alternative Data Investment Strategist - Investment Management Firm (Stamford, CT)
- See 60 other openings for Investment Research, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist
Consulting Projects (NEW)
- Consulting project for transaction data experts: Projects for data analysts or scientists with experience making KPI estimates using email receipt and/or credit card data. Requires knowledge of unbiasing and modeling techniques beyond simple growth rate analysis. Competitive compensation. Contact jobs@alternativedata.org for more information.
News & Insights
- A report from Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman estimates that 40% of employees on the buy-side will require fundamental retraining to improve data and analytics capabilities. (Oliver Wyman, long read)
- SAE, the quant arm investment unit within BlackRock, uses alternative datasets to turn out tools for the asset manager's traditional investment groups. (Financial Times, subscription required)
- Economic gauges used across investment teams are created by SAE using internet searches, online invoices, and traffic patterns.
- Over 37% of SAE employees are PhDs in computer science, physics, and engineering.
- Datasets used to track Tesla Model 3 production include Bloomberg’s new VIN tracker, U.S. import records, and imagery of factory lots. (Bloomberg)
- Earnest Research, a credit card data provider, reports that HelloFresh surpassed Blue Apron in share of the $5bn American meal-kit market.(Recode)
- Funds that access public filing information see 1.5% higher returns in the following month than funds using no public information. (Bloomberg Brief, Full Paper)
- The research had its flaws, however, in identifying hedge funds accurately. (Integrity Research, subscription required)
- Insights from survey at JPMorgan quant conference in Asia. (@RobinWigg)
- 53% say sentiment data is most promising data type.
- Lack of talent and high fixed cost are top barriers to entry in using big data.
- James Rosseau, Chief Commercial Officer of LegalShield, discusses data generation, application, and backtesting of Law Index dataset, which uses legal activity to forecast economic conditions. (SeekingAlpha)