The Download 39: 3 New Datasets, 4 Jobs, Steps for Sourcing and Integrating New Datasets
PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE Weekly data on cruise prices and occupancy rates: Cruise Analytics Public, web, and sentiment data aggregator with specific focus on B2C companies. Actively tweeting predictions @AstutexAI: Astutex Consultant...
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PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE
- Weekly data on cruise prices and occupancy rates: Cruise Analytics
- Public, web, and sentiment data aggregator with specific focus on B2C companies. Actively tweeting predictions @AstutexAI: Astutex
- Consultant providing survey data and conversations with employees via social media advertising: Grapedata
UPDATES
- Sentieo, a data interface, raised $19mm Series A round. (Sentieo)
- Geospatial Insight, a satellite data provider, launched service to track how events such as natural disasters impact public companies. (Integrity Research, subscription required)
EVENTS
- Creating Opportunities in Diversity and Innovation - M Science and Women Who Code (November 1 - New York)
- Artificial Intelligence & Alternative Data - Beryl Elites (November 5-6 - New York)
- Discovery Day - BattleFin (November 6 - Hong Kong)
- Learn 2 Quant - Estimize & Jefferies (November 16 - New York)
- See full calendar of upcoming events.
OPENINGS
- Sector Data Analyst - Healthcare - Balyasny (New York, Chicago)
- Equity Quant - Lord Abbett (Jersey City)
- Python Developer / Data Scientist - Point72 (Stamford)
- Data Scientist Manager - JP Morgan Chase (New York)
- See other openings for Investment Research, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist
NEWS & INSIGHTS
- Data sourcer at Quantstellation, a quant investment firm, explains the process of integrating new alternative data sources from initial contact to going live. (LinkedIn)
- Two sentiment providers, Prattle (earnings calls) and Skopos Labs(regulatory filings), explain that their technologies are used by discretionary investors to quickly identify key insights in large amounts of information that would otherwise be reviewed manually. (Traders Magazine, free login required)
- Matthew Granade, Chief Market Intelligence Officer at Point72, discusses how a venture capital arm allows the firm to better understand parts of the economy where private companies play a major role. He also states that the firm evaluates "hundreds and hundreds of datasets in any year" in response to question on how much data is too much. (Bloomberg, video)
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