The Download 38: 4 New Datasets, LinkUp Powering Jobs Feed, 2 New Reports on Alt. Data Usage and Spend
PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE Data on e-commerce sales, shipping volume, and omni-channel strategy using web scraping and app usage: PipeCandy Data on M&A rumors from web scraping, delivered in real-time...
PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE
- Data on e-commerce sales, shipping volume, and omni-channel strategy using web scraping and app usage: PipeCandy
- Data on M&A rumors from web scraping, delivered in real-time and tagged with credibility scores: Rumor Hound
- Data on 1.5mm job openings across 6k companies categorized by title and job type: Freestyle Media
- Patent data with with products covering biological and chemical industries: PatSnap
UPDATES
- Crux Informatics, a data infrastructure provider, closed $20mm Series B funding round. (Crux)
- Ravenpack, a sentiment provider, launched Analytics Search, a tool for identifying key events and public companies associated with certain keywords. (Ravenpack)
NEW REQUESTS FOR DATA
- Data mapping to SaaS companies: enterprise customers, user count, churn, contract value, engagement/usage, etc.
EVENTS
- Creating Opportunities in Diversity and Innovation - M Science and Women Who Code (November 1 - New York)
- Discovery Day - BattleFin (November 6 - Hong Kong)
- Learn 2 Quant - Estimize & Jefferies (November 16 - New York)
OPENINGS
- The jobs feed is now powered by LinkUp, increasing our coverage so that you never miss the newest and best jobs in alternative data.
- Quantitative Investments, AVP - State Street (Boston)
- Senior Data Analyst - The Capital Group (Los Angeles)
- Summer Analyst - Data-Driven Fundamental Research - Point72 (New York)
- Intern, Quantitative Researcher - Balyasny Asset Management (London)
- See other openings for Investment Research, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist
NEWS & INSIGHTS
- 79% of investors say their company is already using alternative data, and 17% plan to start within next year, according to survey of 100 traders, PMs, and heads of trading across buy-side and sell-side. (Dataminr & WBR Insights)
- Integrity Research suggests that recent Aite Group report on buy-side alternative data spend (estimated at $544mm in 2018) is likely underestimating spend growth and personnel costs. AlternativeData.org previously estimated 2018 spend at $656mm. (Integrity Research)
- Tesla sentiment and sales appear uncorrelated, according to an article referencing credit card data provider Second Measure, resale data from CarGurus, search data from car-sharing app Turo, and sentiment data from YouGov. (recode)