How can Eagle Alpha help you?

Eagle Alpha provides solutions to both buyer and vendor challenges by bridging the alternative data gaps.

Vendor SolutionsBuyer Solutions

As the largest alternative data aggregator and platform, Eagle Alpha is the first company to create a taxonomy of 26 alternative data categories.

 

Advertising

Advertising

Data aggregators track corporate advertising spend on various platforms and by campaign.

App Usage & Web Traffic

App Usage & Web Traffic

Web browsing traffic, both online and mobile, can be used to estimate company revenues. Mobile app usage data tracks the number of downloads and time spent using apps.

B2B

B2B

Data aggregators offer datasets about enterprise B2B commerce, including supply chain analytics.

Business Insights

Business Insights

A heterogeneous group of datasets that provide unique insights into companies.

Consumer Credit

Consumer Credit

Marketplace lending data frequently updated daily, showing amounts of loan issuance, pricing, borrower credit quality and defaults levels.

Consumer Transaction

Consumer Transaction

This data can come from a variety of sources and can provide merchant level transaction data, product-level purchase data and macro-level data.

Data Aggregators

Data Aggregators

Technological innovation has allowed aggregators to collect data from disparate sources and aggregate that data in a format that is helpful for asset managers.

Employment

Employment

Listings of job postings can be used to evaluate corporate strategy and direction, industry growth rates, and demand for specific skills.

ESG

ESG

Non-traditional data sources can provide insights into the environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards at a company.

Event Detection

Event Detection

Alerts to breaking news from major news wires or social media sources allow traders to react before news is fully discounted in asset prices.

Expert Views

Expert Views

Topic and sentiment trends among experts in any industry, or field of expertise, can differ substantially from the trends observed in the general population and in news feeds.

Flow

Flow

Daily institutional and retail investor flow of capital between asset classes and type of asset manager.

Geo-location

Geo-location

Location data derived from mobile devices can yield timely information on visitation trends.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Consists of data derived from internet-connected devices

Online Search

Online Search

Consists of data collected by search engines regarding the frequency of terms searched.

Open Data

Open Data

A tremendous amount of data is becoming available as open data. CKAN, Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, is a non-profit registry of open data.

Pricing

Pricing

Aggregated pricing data or goods and services for consumers provides insights into corporate revenues and industry competition.

Public Sector

Public Sector

Government agencies publish large datasets that can be used to gauge both social and economic activity as well as industry dynamics.

Reviews & Ratings

Reviews & Ratings

Product and service reviews posted online can be harvested and analyzed for ratings trends and frequently mentioned topics.

Satellite & Weather

Satellite & Weather

The interpretation of satellite images into data or intelligence is useful to asset managers.

Sentiment

Sentiment

Scoring of news feeds and social media posts may be applied to investor commentary, consumer attitudes toward products and brands, or mainstream news feeds.

Social Media

Social Media

Data from social media platforms can be used to analyze consumer trends, reception of product launches, brand popularity, customer satisfaction, product sales promotions, social and political movements, and corporate/customer engagement.

Store Locations

Store Locations

Tracking store locations can yield insights into corporate growth and strategy, particularly when store hours and promotions are also tracked.

Tick

Tick

The order book, trades and quotes from stock, bond, options and futures market exchanges globally.

Trade

Trade

Macro firms leverage new non-traditional trade datasets for the balance of payment estimates, insights into major commodity markets, indications of national competitive advantages and indications of consumer strength.

Web Crawled

Web Crawled

Web crawling is a means of aggregating price, social media, ratings/reviews, employment and store location data via a computer program that requests information from public URLs