PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE

• Web data covering e-commerce via inventory, pricing, promotional campaigns, and consumer review tracking: DataWeave
• Satellite data covering construction and agriculture: Bird.i
• Web-scraped data used to identify political risk on the sector and ticker level: GeoQuant
• Analytics platform for assessing how macro drivers are affecting stock prices in a portfolio: Quant Insight
• Data and research reports on Chinese entertainment industry, including box office and survey data: Entgroup

UPDATES

• RS Metrics partnered with CME Group to distribute its copper data. (Integrity Research, subscription required)
• Orbital Insight partnered with Bloomberg to distribute its car count data. (Integrity Research, subscription required)
• YipitData launched email receipt dataset on Match Group (MTCH) and Bumble, providing visibility into subscription plan and alacarte purchases. Full IAC product additionally includes web-scraped paying service professionals (SPs) data for HomeAdvisor. (Request Info)

REQUESTS FOR DATA (RFD)

• Spend or footfall data for Domino’s Pizza France and Domino’s Pizza Germany - tracking consumer trends online, in-store, or in-app.
• Data on revenue and associate growth for multi-level marketing companies (e.g. Herbalife, Usana Health Services, Nu Skin).

OPENINGS

• Consulting project exploring qualitative evaluation of alternative dataset. Ideal candidate will have experience using alternative datasets to make buy/sell calls. Contact jobs@alternativedata.org for more detail.
• Alternative Data Marketplace Program Manager - Citi (New York)
• See other openings for Investment Research, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist

EVENTS

• Alternative Data: Sources for Finding Alpha - Alternative Investment Management Association (July 25, Toronto)
• Intro to Bayesian Statistics - Augvest & AlternativeData.org (July 26 6:00 p.m., New York)
• Artificial Intelligence and Alternative Data: Where Things Stand and Where Things are Going - Beryl Elites Conferences (Sept. 5, New York)
• See full calendar of upcoming events

NEWS & INSIGHTS

• Venture capital arm of Point72 targets emerging financial technologies including quant investment platform, Quantopian. (Stamford Advocate)
• Macro hedge funds Brevan Howard and Stone Milliner invest in Quant Insight, a macro trend data analytics platform. Quant Insight partnered with Predata, a social data analytics platform, in March. (US News, Markets Media)
• Prattle, an earnings-call sentiment provider, faces increased competition from UBS and CB Insights. (Integrity Research, subscription required)
• Two articles discuss the intricacies of image processing for satellite providers, often the distinguishing step for for finding successful use cases.
  • CEO of Bird.i, a newly-added satellite provider, explains how it tooks years of model training to develop an image tracker that can accurately separate meaningless variations (colors, shadows, acquisition angles) from ground-truth construction changes. (Construction Global)
  • Aerobotics, a satellite provider that sells to farmers, aims to focus its image identification of pest problems past the tree level to the leaf level, which will provide advanced notice of potential issues. (Fin24)
• Data from two app usage providers show that downloads and spend hit all-time highs for Q2 2018, with iOS App Store generating 80% more spend than Google Play despite the Play store having 160% more downloads. App Annie reports overall YoY growth of 20% in revenue and 15% in downloads, while Sensor Tower shows how the World Cup drove large increases in live streaming and sports app downloads. (TechCrunch)