The Download 31: How Funds Attract Data Talent, 3 Events, 4 New Datasets

Data on UK consumer transactions via price comparison platform: MoneySuperMarket
Survey data and consulting services covering the casino gaming industry: Eilers & Krejcik Gaming
Survey data on local digital ad spend, sourced from 7,500 small-medium sized businesses, with granularity to the county level: Borrell Associates
Sentiment and ratings data on sell-side and investor stock opinions: Tipranks

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Two articles discuss how the buy-side attracts data talent:
- Hedge funds emphasize data focus to woo top graduates with technical skill sets. (Financial Times, subscription required)
- Funds making university donations benefit from the research generated as well as access to the young talent graduating. (Financial Times, subscription required)
Paula Campbell Roberts, head of alternative data at investment firm KKR, discusses how population age, job automation, and immigration trends are all inputs to their investment process. (Bloomberg)
Alternative data is often a byproduct of data mirroring (showing your customers how they stack up to their competition) for B2B software vendors. (Harvard Business Review)
Greg Skibiski, CEO of geolocation provider Thasos Group, talks to fintech news platform Waters Technology about alternative data, touching on provider growth, dataset productization, and more. (Waters Technology)

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