PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE

• Medical device and hospital supplies sales covering 3,500 companies, 100k products, and 15% of total spend: MedMine
• Tech talent tracking, e.g. percent of engineers at companies within sector, talent tenure, etc.: humanpredictions
• Business event monitoring platform, categorized by 18 fields (including regulatory, management, innovation, contracts): Sigmai

UPDATES

• YipitData launched Pinduoduo (PDD) dataset tracking units sold, ASP, GMV, active merchants and merchant churn. Product also includes analysis of counterfeit goods and competitive overlap with Taobao. (Request Info)
• Consumer Edge launched CE-Q, an alternative data analysis platform. (businesswire)

OPENINGS

• Data Scientist - Cargometrics (Boston)
• Quantamental Researcher - Hedge Fund (New York)
• See other openings for Investment Research, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist

EVENTS

• Sentiment Analysis, AI and Machine Learning (Oct. 30, Zurich)
• See full calendar of upcoming events

NEWS & INSIGHTS

• Quant funds look to sentiment data to anticipate the actions of Chinese retail investors. Over 50% of quants surveyed in JPMorgan Hong Kong conference view social media sentiment as most valuable alternative data source. (Financial Times)
• Greenwich Associates estimate that annual budget for alternative datasets across institutional investors totals $300mm. (Greenwich Associates, subscription required, summary available)
• Neuberger Berman announces partnership with University of Waterloo to research data-driven investment strategy. (prnewswire)
• Alliance Bernstein looking into its own data for investment decisions. (Risk.net, subscription required)
• Researchers demonstrate method to distinguish between satellite imagery of corn and soybean fields with 95% accuracy. (R&D Mag)
• Survey and satellite data used to create map showing how U.S. uses its land. (Bloomberg)