ADDED TO THE DATABASE

• Infrastructure tool to help data vendors efficiently deliver data to clients: DataBolt
   
• Sentiment data on social media in any language, dating back to 2006 for Twitter and 2015 for other platforms: DigitalMR
   
• Job data by company, location, skills, title, salary, and more. Specialized coverage in retail, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries: Talismatic
   
• See public database of 424 data providers and tools/services.

UPDATES

• Quandl added data on US job listings by company. (Quandl)
   
• Big Byte Insights, a REIT-focused web data provider, added data on multifamily apartment REITs.
   
• Hivemind, an alternative data infrastructure provider, closed funding round with Barclays and Fidelity. Details were not disclosed. (businesswire)
   
• Vortexa, an energy data provider, closed $5mm Series A. (Business Insider)

REQUESTS FOR DATA

• Alibaba (BABA):
  • Item listings on Tmall.com and/or Taobao.com
  • Advertising Revenue - click volume and CPCs
     
• Dataset on number portability to track subscribers to major wireless networks.

If you have this data or know who may, email data@alternativedata.org. Visit Requests for Data page to see all open requests or to make a new request.

EVENTS

• Building an Analytics Platform that Includes Alternative Data - Caserta (March 21 - Webinar)
   
• A Sneak Peek at the Big IPOs of 2019 - SimilarWeb (March 26 - Webinar) 

See full calendar of upcoming events. 

OPENINGS

• Senior Data Analyst - Broad Peak (Singapore)
   
• Quantitative Analyst - Franklin Templeton (Scotland)
   
• Director, Analytics Platforms - Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Toronto)
   
• Data Strategy Research Associate - Jefferies (New York)

See other openings for Investment Research, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, and Data Scientist.

NEWS & INSIGHTS

• Global head of active equities at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Deborah Orida, discusses how the fund uses alternative data to inform long-term outlook. In one example, the fund compared real-estate companies using a public registry of realtors to understand employee flow between firms. (Leaderpost)
   
• Head of Point72 Market Intelligence, Matthew Granade, discusses the fund's strategy around data, public and private investing, and their thesis on model-driven companies. (Master's in Business, podcast)
   
• Investors look to satellite data on China as they're skeptical of official government figures. (Reuters, tip: Quandl)
   
• Former AIG quant uses web-scraped data from Change.org and sentiment analysis to evaluate a fund's purchase of Venezuelan debt. (towardsdatascience, long read)
   
• WSJ attributes volatility in retail stocks to short-term traders being emboldened by new data sources. (WSJ, login required) 
   
• "The Book of Alternative Data" is to be published in 2020 by Wiley. (Twitter)