DATA PROVIDER DATABASE New Datasets TrustData – Chinese mobile app usage data provider with over 150mm MAUs. Unacast – geo-location data provider with ~11mm MAUs in the US, sourced from GPS, WiFi…
The Download X – Coding-Free Web Scraping Tool, Tesla Production Data, and 14 New Data Providers
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE New Dataset Spotlight Zaoshu.io – coding-free web scraping platform focused on Chinese companies. Tracks JD and AMZN. RandomWalk – consumer foot traffic (geolocation) and email receipt data on 15K stores, including…
The Download 09: 21 New Datasets, Moody’s Invests In Property Data Startup
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE (191) Added: EEDAR – data and analytics on over 127K video game products. WDZJ.com – daily data on various Chinese P2P companies, including Yirendai (YRD), PPDF, Rapid Finance. Re-analytics – web data…
The Download 08 – 16 New Datasets, Introducing “Request For Data”
DATA PROVIDER DATABASE (174) Added: One Click Retail – e-commerce data analytics firm. Provides sales figures for items sold on Amazon.com. (WSJ, subscription required) TransCore – provides various transportation industry metrics. Scoop Analytics –…
The Download 06: 14 New Datasets, 3 New Jobs, 21 Data Success Stories
Monday, September 11, 2017 DATA PROVIDER DATABASE Updates: Descartes Labs, a satellite data provider, raises $30mm Series B. (TechCrunch) YipitData launched Ryanair (RYA) and Carvana (CVNA) datasets. Ursa, a satellite data provider, released new Caribbean…
The Download 05: 9 New Datasets, Balyasny Invests in Data Company, Challenges for Geo-Location Data
Thursday, August 31, 2017 DATA PROVIDER DATABASE (New Datasets and Updates) Update Balyasny invests in geo-location alternative data provider, Cubiq.(Integrity Research) Update Geo-location data provider, Reveal Mobile, is facing challenges for receiving unauthorized user data from…
Download 04: Web Scraping Ruling, New Geo-Location Dataset, and New Features
A federal court ruled against LinkedIn, confirming that a startup can scrape its publicly available data – a potentially precedent-setting ruling in favor of web scraping based analytics (Ars Technica, WSJ) We…
Download 02: What To Do When Datasets Disagree, Why each PM should have their own data analysts and engineer
Why each PM should have their own data analysts and engineer: “Each PM is going to be trading different names, and will need to access different sets of information. Fighting…
Download 01: Hedge funds struggle to integrate data scientists, Alternative data to eliminate 90K jobs, Datathons
Payless bankruptcy correctly predicted using WHOIS data. [Volmanac] Why discretionary hedge funds struggle to integrate their data scientists. [efinancialcareers, Bloomberg] Yodlee at odds with JPMorgan: “JPMorgan has been insisting in negotiations that it will…