Amy Dafnis, our Neudata analyst, will be presenting at the Quant conference on the 12th April 2019. She will be speaking about the identification of novel data sources in an increasingly mature alternative data market.
Jia Hu, our Neudata analyst will be presenting at the China Guiyang International Big Data Industry Seminar on the 28th February. She will be speaking about the development of alternative data in China, and how Neudata plans to expand their coverage of Chinese datasets.
As the use of alternative data within the investment community grows more prevalent, this prompts questions on dataset crowding and its implications for alpha generation. While opinions may be divided on the significance of buy-side client numbers in evaluating a dataset, an analysis of dataset crowding serves as an interesting source of insight into the interplay between supply and demand for different data types. In the following analysis, we explore: (1) levels of dataset crowding across different dataset types, (2) supply and demand for four dataset types: web scraping, web & app tracking, ESG, and location, (3) the types of data that will be most valued by investors in the future.
Ian Webster, our Senior Vice President, will be speaking on a panel at Gyana's Financial Services Breakfast on 28th February 2019. The discussion will cover how to incorporate alternative data into the investment process.
Although alternative data providers are united on the front that mobile gaming is a steadily growing market, they are, however, divided on its exact size. In this Intelligence report, we historically compare predictions made by three mobile gaming data vendors, and take a closer look as to why there is such a divergence in their estimates.
The past years have seen an emergence of numerous providers offering either signal outputs or analytics tools that rely on Natural Language Processing. In this Neudata Intelligence piece, we introduce several basic tenants of NLP, a selection of ‘alt data’ applications, and finally ask – how can a prospective user evaluate such products in the pre-testing phase?
Our roundup of some of the most interesting alternative data provider updates over the past month. This month, US transactional data providers gear up for the year ahead, some positive updates from new alt data entrants, and agricultural data saves the day.
Neudata are pleased to announce our bronze sponsorship of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Trading event, which will take place in NYC on 19th-20th March 2019. Daryl Smith, Head of Research at Neudata, will be presenting on the topic of innovations of alternative data, and our CEO, Rado Lipus, will take part in a panel discussion on emerging business models in alt data as well as the next "hot" data sources and regions.
According to industry trends (both anecdotal and empirical), the Japanese alternative data landscape is generally seen to be at an earlier stage of development than its European and US counterparts. In the following piece, we shed some light on the state of the market by looking at (1) domestic demand for alternative data (2) challenges faced by local data providers, and (3) some unique sources of consumer spending data from this region.
On 29th January 2019, our Senior Vice President, Ian Webster, will be speaking at the Allfunds Education Lab in Milan. The Lab 2 event explores the theme of "investor-centricity" and Ian will be presenting on the topic of alternative data sources.
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