The Alternative Data Podcast

Mark Fleming-Williams•shows.acast.com

On this show we reveal some of the latest developments in the fast-growing Alternative Data sector. Satellite imaging, news-crawling, credit card data... and many more fresh new data sources are increasingly being used by investors to gain a competitive edge when making market decisions. We speak to data providers, asset managers, and anyone else in the sector to better understand this dynamic phenomenon.

For more of an introduction to Alternative Data and its past, present and future, please check out this blogpost: https://www.exabel.com/blog/alternative-data-the-past-present-and-future

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Episodes

The Advan Research Episode

In this episode I’m joined by Yiannis Tsiounis, CEO and founder of Advan Research, a location data company which recently won Best Alternative Data Provider at the IMD & IRD Awards. Among other things, Yiannis tells me about how Advan has found that employee mobility can correlate closely with a company’s performance, and how Advan’s Miles Driven Index is useful for the auto, oil and insurance industries. www.advanresearch.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 24, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 4

The Unacast Episode

In this episode I’m joined by Thomas Walle, who is the CEO and co-founder of Unacast, a leading location data company based out of New York and Oslo. As a location data company with a major European presence, Unacast is particularly aware of the new GDPR privacy regulations in Europe, and Thomas and I spoke about the challenges involved in trying to change consumer attitudes towards personal data and how it can be used for positive reasons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Nov 21, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 3

The Thinknum Episode

In this episode I’m joined by Gregory Ugwi, who is the co-founder and CEO of Thinknum, one of the more established players in the Alternative Data world. Thinknum is a web-scraper, and it serves as a conduit for investors and corporates who are interested in exploring all the information that you can find about a company on the internet. This includes data like job postings, employee and customer reviews, and pricing information, amongst a wealth of other possibilities. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Nov 14, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2

What is Alternative Data?

2020 has been the year of Alternative Data. As Covid-19 caused unprecedented changes to sweep the global economy, investors and analysts have sought new ways to get a real-time picture on the effects the virus was leaving in its wake. Meanwhile, technological advances in big data and machine learning have provided new sources from which to gain a day-to-day understanding of these seismic changes. The fast-growing sector of Alternative Data has been the result. In the first episode of The Alterna...

Nov 10, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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