Building a Data Lake Ops Platform that Can Handle the Reality of Data The Data Circus Much has been said in the data world about ideal states: “Data at your fingertips”, “Plug-and-play insights”, “Empower your whole organization with data”, and “Democratizing insights...
Background According to our 2021 buyside survey of funds implementing an alternative data strategy, data budgets were forecast to grow by over 20% in 2021, and with the average spending on datasets becoming larger for recent alternative data adopters than more...
Background As asset managers invest resources into building out alternative data initiatives, data sourcing is seen as an integral part of the process, with in-house and outsourced professionals finding and introducing datasets and data vendors. With datasets rapidly...
The following guest article was written by Ihor Dusaniwsky, Managing Director of Predictive Analytics, S3 Partners, a market-leading financial data and technology company that provides Pricing and Analytics for Capital Markets and Solutions that connect clients to...
Introduction: Alternative data is increasingly being used in private markets, including private equity, real estate, credit, and infrastructure, across deal origination, due diligence, and post-acquisition value creation and risk mitigation. Initially, interest in...
External data, commonly known as alternative data, is any data generated from outside an organization, with examples including employment data, geolocation data, social media data, and consumer transaction data. The data is derived from two main sources (i) data...
