Dallán Ryan

In this episode, Brendan Furlong, Head of Data Sourcing & Advisory at Eagle Alpha, speaks with Ed Lavery about his rise in alternative data, the data from Placer.ai, and their new role with Bloomberg.

In this episode, Brendan Furlong, Head of Data Sourcing and Advisory speaks with Max Warren, Team Director, Financial Institutions Sales. Max discusses why it is important to understand the quality of Sensor Tower’s panel and what is different from peers. As App data can be large Max highlights how their analyst team can help clients understand the nuances of using app data. Max also gives some examples of how the data can be used and discusses how the Pathmatics data can be a differentiator.

On this episode of Eagle Alpha’s Profiting From Data Podcast, host Brendan Furlong, Head of Data Sourcing and Strategy at Eagle Alpha, sits down with Garrett DeSimone, PhD and Head of Quant Research at OptionMetrics. We hear from Garrett on his background and transition from academia to OptionMetrics which is a leading data vendor covering the options market with end of day pricing and volumes back to 1996. The company also provides analytics on option market “greeks” and “option surfaces” that institutional investors can use to gain alpha opportunities or to hedge positions.

In this episode, Dallán Ryan, Content & Advisory Lead, Data Strategy was joined by Ben Kozinn from Schulte Roth & Zabel, Kjartan Slette from Unacast, and Jason Sarfati from Gravy Analytics to discuss recent geolocation data collection and sharing developments. The panel discussed data collection best practices and data processing vendors are undertaking, sensitive locations, the FTC case with Kochava, and the likelihood of a US federal privacy law coming into effect any time soon.

In this episode, Gary Collier and James Munro of Man Group, one of the leading multi-asset investment groups globally, discuss the ideation and development of ArcticDB, an embedded, columnar datastore optimized for time-series data.