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Geopolitical Shifts in India and Pakistan

India–Pakistan Conflict Tracker: Uncovering the Tensions Through Open-Source Media In May 2025, South Asia was once again thrust into the international spotlight, as India and Pakistan engaged in their most dangerous military escalation since the Pulwama-Balakot episode in 2019. This time, the trigger was not just a border skirmish — it was a full-blown, multi-theater retaliation involving airstrikes, civilian casualties, and cross-border claims of aerial victories. Here’s what happened, [...]

First to invest2025-05-07T06:08:39-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: Case study|Tags: Geopolitical, india, osint, Pakistan|Comments Off

Geopolitical Shifts in the Arctic

Geopolitical Shifts in the Arctic: Strategic, Economic, and Military Dimensions Abstract The Arctic region has rapidly transformed into a focal point of geopolitical rivalry due to its immense untapped resources and strategic location. This research paper provides an in-depth analysis of the geopolitical, economic, and military developments in the Arctic between 2019 and 2023. It explores the roles of key Arctic and non-Arctic players, including Russia, China, Denmark, Canada, [...]

First to invest2025-04-17T03:21:26-04:00April 17th, 2025|Categories: Case study|Tags: Arctic, Geopolitical, osint|Comments Off

The Guyana-Venezuela Territorial Dispute Over Essequibo

The Guyana-Venezuela Territorial Dispute Over Essequibo: Historical Roots, Economic Stakes, and Geopolitical Implications 1. Introduction The territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region is one of South America’s most enduring and complex conflicts, rooted in colonial history and shaped by contemporary geopolitical dynamics. Spanning approximately 159,500 square kilometers, the Essequibo region constitutes nearly two-thirds of Guyana’s landmass and is rich in natural resources, including gold, [...]

First to invest2025-04-18T03:31:23-04:00April 16th, 2025|Categories: Case study|Tags: Geopolitical, Guyana, osint, Venezuela|Comments Off

Anti-Erdoğan Protests in Turkey: An OSINT-Based Analysis (March 2025)

Anti-Erdoğan Protests in Turkey: An OSINT-Based Analysis (March 2025) Executive Summary Executive Summary: In March 2025, widespread protests erupted across Turkey in response to the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a prominent opposition figure and perceived frontrunner in the 2028 presidential elections. This Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) report synthesizes data from social media, video content, official statements, and international media to analyze the scale, dynamics, and implications of [...]

First to invest2025-04-16T18:00:07-04:00April 16th, 2025|Categories: Case study|Tags: Geopolitical, osint, Turkey|Comments Off

Analytical Report: Key Takeaways from the 15th BRICS Summit 2023

Analytical Report: Key Takeaways from the 15th BRICS Summit 2023 Aug 23, 2023 Executive Summary The 15th BRICS Summit, held in Sandton, South Africa, featured a series of landmark discussions and revelations that point towards shifting geopolitical dynamics, economic aspirations, and ambitions for global influence among BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). Key agendas included the potential expansion of the BRICS bloc, reducing dollar dependency, and [...]

First to invest2023-08-24T04:57:23-04:00August 23rd, 2023|Categories: Case study|Tags: BRICS|Comments Off

Coup in Niger

Intelligence Report: Coup in Niger 18 Aug 2023 Coup Details: The Nigerien military has staged a coup d'état, resulting in the detention of President Mohamed Bazoum. The individual leading this coup, a Nigerien general, has subsequently declared himself the new president of Niger. Reaction in West Africa: The broader West African community, likely through ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States), has shown a willingness to intervene militarily against [...]

First to invest2023-08-24T05:00:02-04:00August 18th, 2023|Categories: Case study|Tags: Coup, Niger|Comments Off

Cyber Threat Landscape Overview Aug 11 2023

Intelligence Analysis Report on Cybersecurity Threat Landscape 11 Aug 2023 Summary: The current global cybersecurity landscape reveals an increasing number of sophisticated cyberattacks and data breaches. These attacks have targeted educational institutions, financial organizations, healthcare providers, electoral commissions, and governmental bodies. There is an urgent need to prioritize cybersecurity measures across sectors to safeguard critical data and infrastructure. 1. Targeted Sectors and Entities: Educational Institutions: Michigan State, Cambridge College, [...]

First to invest2023-08-24T05:02:43-04:00August 11th, 2023|Categories: Case study|Tags: cyber, cyber attack, Cyber security, Data Breaches, DDOS|Comments Off

The Rising Role of Rare Elements: China’s Stance and the World’s Response

The Rising Role of Rare Elements: China's Stance and the World's Response The current global environment is marked by significant shifts, both technological and geopolitical. Amidst these shifts, a certain segment of metals, specifically rare and precious ones like Gallium, Germanium, and Terahertz integrated photonic devices, have suddenly found themselves at the center of global interest. Here's a closer look at what's happening. 1. The Technological Upsurge: Why These [...]

First to invest2023-08-24T05:04:12-04:00August 6th, 2023|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, gallium, germanium, Rare Elements|Comments Off

Cryptocurrency Under the Microscope: An Analyst’s Dive into Digital Assets

Cryptocurrency Under the Microscope: An Analyst's Dive into Digital Assets The tides of financial markets have always been intriguing, but none as much as the undercurrents of the cryptocurrency realm. The intersection of technology, economics, and human behavior in this sector offers a goldmine of insights. Today, we'll guide you through the recent events and trends in the crypto-verse, all through the lens of an analyst. 1. The North [...]

First to invest2023-08-11T02:46:40-04:00August 6th, 2023|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, blockchain, crypto, crypto theft|Comments Off

Latest Startups Investment Analysis Report

Latest Startups Investment Analysis Report Introduction This report presents an analysis of recent investment and funding activities across various sectors, mainly focusing on technology, healthcare, finance, and startup ecosystems around the world. A surge in investment activities indicates a robust environment for technological innovation and growth. Here is a comprehensive analysis of the information gathered from multiple sources. Technology & AI Sector 1. London's AutogenAI: Raised $22.3 million for [...]

First to invest2023-08-11T02:47:30-04:00August 4th, 2023|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, private equity, venture capital|Comments Off

Harnessing Alternative Data for Competitive Advantage

Harnessing Alternative Data for Competitive Advantage by Anil K. Gupta, Jon Norberg, Evan Schnidman, and Kai Wu We were accited to see our data sited in the article "A data tsunami is headed our way, with new types of data emerging at a staggering pace.1 Even simple devices such as EZPass transponders used by several U.S. states collect data on over 10 million toll transactions per day recording the time, [...]

First to invest2022-12-22T08:46:02-05:00December 22nd, 2022|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, private equity, venture capital|Comments Off

Startups fundraising in May 2022

Startups fundraising in May 2022 Right now, startups are facing a contraction in valuation — not revenue, which was the case in the early COVID days. Public-market comps are down 60% or more in some sectors, and they tend to be the leading indicator of how VCs are similarly going to value startups down the road. Downside risks that can temper growth expectations and PE/ VC investment activity include [...]

First to invest2022-06-03T03:21:44-04:00June 3rd, 2022|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, fundraising, private equity, unicorn, venture capital|Comments Off

Top unicorn investors

Top unicorn investors “Unicorn” is a term used in the venture capital industry to describe a privately held startup company with a value of over $1 billion. One of the best indicators that a company is on track to becoming a unicorn is its investment history. Soon-to-be or “baby unicorns” tend to have a strong funding history, especially in their C and D fundraising rounds. There are 1,150 unicorns [...]

First to invest2022-04-13T09:12:56-04:00April 13th, 2022|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, fundraising, private equity, unicorn, venture capital|Comments Off

Startups’ fundraising and secondary deals database

Startups' fundraising and secondary deals database The easiest way to discover promising companies, source deals, and leads Whether you are looking for companies to invest in, collaborate with, or offer services to, you are in the right place. Using big data and NLP technologies to find startups' fundraising and secondary activities announcements across the globe. Data is enriched, cleansed, verified, and updated daily to ensure our customers have the latest [...]

First to invest2022-04-12T20:26:48-04:00March 1st, 2022|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, fundraising, private equity, secondary deal, venture capital|Comments Off

FIRST TO INVEST and transACT Technology Solutions

FIRST TO INVEST and transACT Technology Solutions 📢CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY ALERT!📢 ⭐The Customer – FIRST TO INVEST First To Invest provides data systems with deep analytics that drive the decisions of global organizations, including world-leading quants, fundamental hedge funds, assets managers, private equity, and corporates. ❓The Challenge: First to Invest sought to address the challenge of delivering millions of data feeds to their customers faster, easier, and with reduced costs. [...]

First to invest2022-03-24T16:08:42-04:00February 25th, 2022|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data|Comments Off

Private equity and Venture capital – use cases

Private equity and Venture capital - use cases (Views and recommendations given in this section are for research purposes only. Please consult your financial adviser before taking any position in the stock/s or currencies mentioned.) Neither First to invest. nor any of its officers, employees, representatives, agents or independent contractors are, in such capacities, licensed financial advisors, registered [...]

First to invest2022-02-06T14:31:15-05:00February 6th, 2022|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, private equity, venture capital|Comments Off

Private equity 2021 summary

Private equity 2021 summary Private equity continues to perform well during 2021. The strength and speed of the rebound suggest resilience and continued momentum as investors increasingly look to private markets for higher potential returns in a sustained low-yield environment. Funding in 2021 has far superseded 2020. PE/VC investment will likely remain robust in most regions of the world in 2022. Sectors such as fintech, business productivity, and health [...]

First to invest2022-03-24T16:10:15-04:00December 20th, 2021|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, private equity, venture capital|Comments Off

FIRST TO INVEST join the AWS data exchange

FIRST TO INVEST join the AWS data exchange - Big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events on public, private companies, and specific topics from news articles, press releases, and financial social media. - Covering more than 10,000 public companies globally as well as customize lists of private companies AWS data exchange, the global marketplace for data, adds First To Invest to their established data marketplace. [...]

First to invest2021-07-08T05:29:43-04:00July 8th, 2021|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data|Comments Off

Eagle Alpha’s INTERACT Data Conference

We are delighted to participate as Bronze Sponsors in Eagle Alpha's INTERACT Data Conference on May 25-26th, 2021. We are booking 1-1 meetings before, during and after the conference! Big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events from news articles, press releases, and financial social media and share it with our clients via dashboards or API. READ MORE (Views and recommendations given in this section [...]

First to invest2021-05-19T15:57:19-04:00May 19th, 2021|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data|Comments Off

First To Invest join the IOWArocks global data marketplace

First To Invest join the IOWArocks global data marketplace to deliver key corporate events data to the hedge funds, asset management and private equity community - Big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events on public, private companies, and specific topics from news articles, press releases, and financial social media. - Covering more than 10,000 public companies globally as well as customize lists of private companies [...]

First to invest2021-04-29T10:27:04-04:00April 29th, 2021|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data|Comments Off

2021 NEXT LEVEL Data Conference

2021 NEXT LEVEL Data Conference We are thrilled to participate in the Eagle Alpha event from March 11th - 12th 2021. Big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events from news articles, press releases, and financial social media and share it with our clients via dashboards or API. READ MORE (Views and recommendations given in this section are for research purposes only. Please consult your [...]

First to invest2021-03-05T07:34:41-05:00March 5th, 2021|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data|Comments Off

UK top private companies in the insurtech industry

Alternative data for private equity fundsHow alternative data help private equity and venture capital funds?Establishing a winning valuation requires a clear picture of the threats and opportunities of a target’s business model. To identifying growth opportunities pre deal, PE now leverages alternative data for helping answer key questions in the DD process such as:— What is the target’s position among its competitors in the market?— Are the sales, marketing, and [...]

First to invest2021-02-28T04:27:51-05:00February 28th, 2021|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, private equity, venture capital|Comments Off

Data Hackathon 2021

Let the games begin. We are super excited to be part of Eagle Alpha's Data Hackathon and a member of #TeamCobraKaidemics. Eagle Alpha conducting an exclusive Data Hackathon as a stand-alone event on February 24, 2021! "How is the U.S. economy really doing? Measured by a real-time macro framework employing alternative data." Please join us Feb 24th as Team Chanadu, Team Cobra Kaidemics, Team Quantassaurus, Team Panda, and Team [...]

First to invest2021-02-05T14:23:36-05:00February 5th, 2021|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternat, alternative data, Wal-Mart|Comments Off

Included in Knoema new alternative data catalog

It is our pleasure to be included in Knoema new alternative data catalog.Knoema is launching its new free data catalog, Alternative Data+. This catalog is made up of hundreds of alternative data tear sheets that feature information about each data provider including tickers and sectors covered, known biases and in some cases, pricing, metadata and sample datasets. https://knoema.com/data/providersALTERNATIVE DATA FOR ALPHABig data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events [...]

First to invest2020-11-05T10:45:36-05:00November 5th, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternat, alternative data, Wal-Mart|Comments Off

Wal-Mart answer to Amazon

Wal-Mart answer to Amazon Wal-Mart is advancing with 5 new partnerships during the past 60 days. The company is pushing forward to expand its revenue streams, logistics and products offering. We have not seen these amount of partnership agreements in a just short period for a big company such Wall mart. Perhaps, this is the answer to Amazon expansion into grocery and discretionary products category. Last week, Walmart confirmed [...]

First to invest2020-08-31T16:09:56-04:00August 30th, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternat, alternative data, Wal-Mart|Comments Off

Are we in the second wave?

Are we in the second wave? Alternative data could help us predict when the second wave of COVID-19 will impact the global economy again. Recent facts from WHO show an increasing cases trend in numerous countries globally, this trend reminds us of the first wave which started in China and spread to Asia, followed by the EU, America, and finally Africa. During the past weeks, the upward trend was [...]

First to invest2020-06-23T04:15:16-04:00June 23rd, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Coronavirus, Second wave|Comments Off

Alternative data in the new decade

Alternative Data in The New Decade Alternative data is a secret weapon financial firms wish to keep on the down-low. After all, Wall Street is designed to reward those who find better ways of assessing risk and punish those who don’t. The recent health pandemic puts alternative data to the ultimate test to prove its merits. Certain industries, like alternative investing, have long used these newer forms of data [...]

First to invest2020-05-25T06:18:54-04:00May 25th, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternat, alternative data|Comments Off

The Impact of Coronavirus on South Korea consumer discretionary sector

The Impact of Coronavirus on South Korea Consumer Discretionary Sector Coronavirus impacts South Korea's consumer discretionary companies strongly as it's force shutting down, suspend manufacture, closing stores, supply-chain disruption etc...As the Consumer Discretionary mainly relies on physical presence, the impact of COVID-19 made shocks to this sector in South Korea and basically, in every country around the world. South Korea reported its first case on January 20, but the [...]

First to invest2020-04-19T05:22:14-04:00April 19th, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Consumer Discretionary, Coronavirus, South Korea|Comments Off

The Impact of Coronavirus on S&P 500 Companies Outlook

The Impact of Coronavirus on S&P 500 Companies Outlook The spread of the coronavirus has reached a pandemic, spanning 112 countries and regions, the stock markets have officially plunged into correction territory—at the fastest rate ever recorded, suffering its worst losses since the 2008 financial crisis this week amid ongoing panic over the spreading coronavirus and its impact on the global economy. Economists now say it is increasingly likely [...]

First to invest2020-04-05T19:56:39-04:00March 20th, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Coronavirus|Comments Off

Coronavirus and companies reaction on its implication

Coronavirus and companies' reaction on its implication The World Health Organization official said other governments need to prepare for“domestic outbreak control” if the disease spreads in their countries. The spread has spooked global markets and threatened prospects for economic growth. an updated number as for Feb 09 reach to death toll for new coronavirus hits 805, exceeding that of SARS. The update death toll as to Feb 17 1775. [...]

First to invest2020-04-05T19:57:10-04:00February 1st, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Coronavirus|Comments Off

Industry overview using alternative data: Oil & Gas Integrated

Industry overview using alternative data: Oil & Gas Integrated An integrated oil and gas company is a business entity that engages in the exploration, production, refinement, and distribution of oil and gas. Given the high entry costs relating to many oil and gas industry operations, many of the world's largest oil and gas companies, like Chevron Corporation and Exxon Mobile, are integrated. Typically, integrated companies divide their various operations into [...]

First to invest2020-04-05T19:57:44-04:00January 21st, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, ESG, oil and gas|Comments Off

Alternative data for Quantamental

Alternative Data for Quantamental Quantamental investing is a term that is now being used to describe a combination of these methods on different data sets to improve on the accuracy of predicting outcomes – such as stock prices or a company (or country)’s financial performance. In the most rudimentary form, if a traditional manager is using a quantitative approch to filter out some securities. One approch in the quantitive [...]

First to invest2020-04-05T19:58:18-04:00January 12th, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Quantamental|Comments Off

Alternative data for private equity funds

Alternative data for private equity fundsIn today’s fast-paced M&A environment, deal making is increasingly a challenging task. Competition is only increasing as private equity (PE) firms, strategies, and other investors aggressively vie for the most attractive targets.The biggest PE managers are investing in alternative data to spotlight opportunities in promising industry segments, to presage reasons to exit a portfolio investment and to improve the precision of their pricing models.“The growing [...]

First to invest2021-12-14T15:13:51-05:00January 5th, 2020|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, private equity, venture capital|Comments Off

Alternative data corporate event 2019 statistics

Alternative data corporate event 2019 statistics The stock markets will finish 2019 with double-digit gains for the 8th time out of the last 11 years. During 2019, our system capture 38K events (68% bullish events vs. 32% bearish once). Here is 2019 statistics: We are excited to see what will happen in 2020 and wish you all a happy and successful new year Big data and NLP technologies to [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T11:57:07-05:00December 30th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: 2019, alternative data, statistics|Comments Off

Alternative data: ESG Case Study

Alternative data: ESG Case Study Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. These criteria help to better determine the future financial performance of companies (Wikipedia). ESG is growing in significance amongst institutional investors. Today, ethical considerations and alignment with values are common motivations of many ESG investors but the [...]

First to invest2021-05-23T09:16:56-04:00December 3rd, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, ESG|Comments Off

Alternative data: Brexit vote prediction using NLP

Alternative data: Brexit vote prediction using NLP The United Kingdom’s divorce with the European Union, better known as Brexit, has become a drawn-out, contentious affair without an obvious resolution. Former British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and her counterparts in the European Union negotiated a withdrawal agreement last year, but opposition to the deal from the UK Parliament killed it three times. The UK commons has the power to [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T11:59:57-05:00November 12th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Brexit, NLP|Comments Off

Alternative data: Uber not a surprise

Alternative data: Uber not a surprise... Uber Technologies Inc (UBER) on Monday posted a wider third-quarter loss as costs at the ride-hailing company soared, sending shares down 6.7% in after-hours trading. Based on Uber's 3Q event analysis we can see that Uber's event-driven score is in a downtrend and cross the 0.5 marks to the bearish territory. In order to find these events, we use big data and NLP [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T12:01:48-05:00November 4th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Uber|Comments Off

Alternative data: benefits and challenges

Alternative data: benefits and challenges What benefits can the use of alternative data bring to financial institutions? Quarterly earnings reports and industry whitepapers are often slow and infrequent and as these traditional sources of information are readily available, they tend to offer limited actionable intelligence or insight. No executive should go to their board and present a plan based on data from 6 months ago when they could be [...]

First to invest2020-04-05T20:04:29-04:00October 24th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data|Comments Off

Alternative data: Netflix outperform in Q3 2019

Alternative data: Netflix outperform in Q3 2019 We saw the shift in Netflix $NFLX from the past quarter using key events that took place during 3Q. The streaming-video pioneer beat subscription estimates thanks to growth in countries like Brazil and India. The third season of Stranger Things helped drive business, drawing a record 64 million households. In total, more than 6 million new viewers signed up last quarter. Barely 500,000 [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T12:00:55-05:00October 18th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Netflix|Comments Off

Alternative data: clean dataset and why it’s impotent

Alternative data: clean dataset and why it's impotent Today, more than 80% of the data is unstructured. Data is being produced as we speak – from every conversation we make in social media to every content generated from news sources. In order to produce any meaningful actionable insight from data, it is important to know how to work with it in its unstructured form. Data and data scientist work [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T11:58:08-05:00October 13th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, dataset|Comments Off

Private equity alternative data Case Study – Snowflake

Private equity alternative data Case Study - Snowflake Snowflake provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud, founded in 2012 and raised $928M to date. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States. Snowflake offers corporate users to store and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software. It runs on Amazon S3 since 2014, and on Microsoft Azure since 2018 It is being rolled [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T12:06:51-05:00September 2nd, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, private equity, target company|Comments Off

NLP: Sift through the noise

NLP: Sift through the noise As data volume increase by the day, the noise level is tremendous. By noise, we mean the same data in different wording or even duplication of the same content. In the financial markets, data is key factor for outperforming the benchmarks. However, nowdays, it becomes impossible to track all major events for relevant companies as the news volume are at pick and continue to [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T19:38:21-05:00August 11th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data|Comments Off

Alternative data: Paris Air Show Airbus vs Boeing

Paris Air Show Airbus vs Boeing The Paris Air Show 2019 (June 17th to 23rd) is the key event for major airplanes manufacture as key deals are made during the trade show. Each year the competition between Airbus and Boeing is getting more intense as each wants to secure more order than its peer. This year, a special condition influence sales figure as Being facing a bad reputation over [...]

First to invest2020-01-02T04:00:42-05:00June 21st, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: Airbus, alternative data, Boing|Comments Off

Using NLP in the financial industry

Using NLP in the financial industry Today’s financial markets are inextricably linked with financial events like acquisitions, profit announcements, or product launches. Information extracted from news messages that report on such events could hence be beneficial for financial decision making. The ubiquity of news, however, makes manual analysis impossible, and due to the unstructured nature of text, the (semi-)automatic extraction and application of financial events remains a non-trivial task. [...]

First to invest2020-01-02T02:16:43-05:00June 16th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, NLP|Comments Off

Ford Motors Layoffs events in 2019

Ford Motors layoffs event tracking using events detection and NLP system Ford Motor (F) announced more job cuts as it continues to restructure, with thousands of salaried positions set to be axed. The automaker will cut 7,000 jobs around the world by August, Ford said in a statement Monday. The cuts amount to 10% of Ford's global salaried workforce. It will save about $600 million annually. Notifications will be [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T12:10:07-05:00May 20th, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Ford motors|Comments Off

Auto-manufacturer recall events 2019

Auto-manufacturer recalls events monitoring using events detection and NLP system Manufacturers of any product—from toys to medicine to automobiles—must create items that are, above all else, safe to use. Not only is this essential to long-term brand value and corporate success, but it’s also required by law. But while perfection is the goal, defects are bound to occur, especially in advanced products such as automobiles. When a safety defect [...]

First to invest2020-01-02T02:38:57-05:00April 1st, 2019|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Auto-manufacture|Comments Off

Forecast Revenue and earnings outcome Using Event-Driven Score

Forecast Revenue and earnings outcome Using Event-Driven Score One major use of an event’s direction using NLP and big-data is the prediction of quarterly financial performance which reflects the company’s operational activities. In this case study, we tested the 2Q 2018 financial announcements using an event-driven score aggregation to predict companies’ 2Q financial performance. To do so, we generated an event-driven score for companies using the period from 04.01-06.30.18 [...]

First to invest2020-01-02T02:39:49-05:00December 5th, 2018|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Forecast|Comments Off

Earnings Beat Forecast Using Event-Driven Score

Earnings Beat Forecast Using Event-Driven Score Events such as M&A, new deals, new orders, partnerships, ESG, regulatory decisions, management and stakeholders’ changes, expansions to new markets or product categories, new products, price changes, new agreements, FDA decisions, financial reports related events, and more reflect the companies’ ongoing operation during a certain period. To demonstrate the predictive power of events on earnings, we selected randomized 134 companies which beat the [...]

First to invest2020-01-02T02:40:46-05:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Forecast|Comments Off

Semiconductor industry outlook using alternative data

Semiconductor industry outlook using alternative data “Three-quarters of the way through 2018, the global semiconductor industry is on pace to post its highest-ever annual sales, comfortably topping last year’s record total of $412 billion,” said John Neuffer, president and CEO, Semiconductor Industry Association. “While year-to-year growth has tapered in recent months, September marked the global industry’s highest-ever monthly sales, and Q3 was its top-grossing quarter on record. Year-to-year sales [...]

First to invest2020-01-27T12:15:08-05:00November 16th, 2018|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Semiconductor|Comments Off

Using Corporate Events To Forecast Financial Outcomes

Using Corporate Events To Forecast Financial Outcomes In today’s reporting session, it is essential to be able to track corporate events such as M&A, new deals, partnerships, ESG, regulatory decisions, management and stakeholder changes, expansions to new markets or product categories, new products, price changes, new agreements, FDA decisions, financial reports related events, macroeconomics, and much more. These events have prediction power on companies’ financial reports, specifically, the direction [...]

First to invest2020-01-02T02:42:41-05:00October 23rd, 2018|Categories: Case study|Tags: alternative data, Forecast|Comments Off