Unstructured data
Quandl Launches Corporate Jet Dataset for Predicting M&A Activity
Officials say the dataset of corporate flights provides an indicator of upcoming corporate activity thta could potentially impact a company's stock price.
Four Twenty Seven Looks to Grow Climate Data for Banks, Asset Managers
Traders and portfolio managers use the data to assess risk and to develop portfolios that are environmentally conscious.
Market Cops Turn to Crime-Fighting Robots
An expanding use of artificial intelligence is taking over surveillance practices, but some believe there are limits to what can be achieved.
Hard Labor: Dealing With Alternative Data
Everyone’s excited about the potential untapped alpha promised by “alternative data,” yet those who work with it are far from excited about the prospect of evaluating unwieldy and unstructured datasets. Max Bowie looks at the practical challenges of…
Pendo Systems Selects Filleul as Sales Engineer
Software vendor hires industry veteran Philip Filleul as sales engineer.
APFIC 2017: Testing, Testing… Firms Employ Trial and Error, AI to Identify Data Value for Analytics
Refining and cleaning data may be time-consuming, but is essential to helping financial institutions perform better analysis on data, panelists in Hong Kong said. Wei-Shen Wong reports.
Red Deer, TheySay Partner for 'Deep Text Analytics'
Red Deer will leverage TheySay’s NLP technology to help buy-side clients extract investment signals from swathes of Big Data.
Web Financial, Selerity Ally to Incorporate Unstructured Data into ‘Personalized’ Client Solutions
Web Financial's platform will allow users to integrate Selerity's tools, allowing them to create customized views of information that leverage unstructured data.
February 2017: Brave New (Data) World
Every new innovation in the world of market and reference data brings with it a new set of challenges-from managing new datasets to ensuring uptime during storms and natural disasters.
The Rise of #AltData
Max Bowie explores the opportunities arising from new, alternative datasets, and the challenges of managing them.
CDOs Elevate Weighty EDM Agendas
For financial firms, more data volumes and data-centric regulations mean a need for more chief data officers.
News Analytics Vendor Almax Taps Former Deutsche Bank, TR Exec Roth as Advisor
Roth will bring more than 20 years of experience as a consumer and provider of data to help commercialize Almax's offering.
Golden Copy: Untapped Goldmine
Unstructured data has been around for a long time, but its importance is emerging in new ways
Bloomberg Buys Netbox Blue, Integrates Technology into Enterprise Compliance Platform
Bloomberg's purchase of Netbox Blue comes after the two firms held a partnership for two years.
AltX Adds Advanced Search, Behavioral Analytics to Alternatives Platform
The new additions will give investors greater insight into the funds and fund managers in which they invest.
Opening Cross: It’s Not What You’ve Got, It’s the Way that You Use It
Storing data isn't the same thing as managing or governing data.
RavenPack Revamps Sentiment Analysis, Focuses on Unstructured Data Beyond Twitter Analytics
The vendor is changing the way it calculates sentiment scores to be more useful to traders.
Eagle Alpha Focuses Social, Web Data Tools on Long-Term Investor Insights
Vendor focuses on delivering long-term trading insights from web and social media data to buy-side firms.
DataGenic Preps ‘Intelligent’ Decision Support Platform for Energy Market Analytics
Vendor hopes first desktop foray will disrupt the energy analytics data market.
Abacus To Include Varonis Software in Private Cloud
Varonis' platform handles unstructured data.
AnalytixInsight Adds Unstructured Data Insights to CapitalCube Research Tool
New York-based provider of web-based fundamental research and stock screening tools AnalytixInsight is finalizing deals with a number of newswires and social media sentiment providers to add indicators based on unstructured data to its CapitalCube…
Kensho Unveils Warren, a Natural-Language Query ‘Virtual Research Assistant'
Cloud-based analytics provider Kensho has enlisted asset managers and research teams to test Warren, a "virtual market research assistant" developed for the financial markets that understands and responds to queries asked using natural language.
Startup Data Boiler Assembles Team, Begins Big Data Consultations
North Weymouth, Mass.-based Big Data analytics startup Data Boiler Technologies has established its initial executive team, and is now approaching capital markets firms to dictate which areas the vendor should prioritize when finalizing its product…
