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Video: Exploiting Alternative Data in the Investment Process

Peter Hafez - Chief Data Scientist - RavenPack | June 16, 2016

The emergence of big data in finance has shifted the alpha focus away from being faster to being smarter than the competition.

Access to alternative data sources is considered a key input to such processes.

Peter Hafez provides an overview of RavenPack’s Big Data Analytics and the future development of the RavenPack product suite. In addition, he presents on his latest work on thematic alpha streams as well as providing an overview of general use cases of RavenPack data across various trading and investment applications.

Presentation held at the RavenPack 4th Annual Research Symposium, New York, June 16th 2016.

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