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Whether you are managing a hedge fund trying to find innovative sources of alpha or are an analyst looking to future proof your company’s financial investments, as big data continues to disrupt the investment research landscape, getting on top of these alternative datasets as early as possible is the key to capturing the immense alpha left in this data.

Data moves around the marketplace. It can be sourced internally or externally and collected from vendors, manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, consumers, and other players in the marketplace.

In this article, we will extract real estate listings from one of the biggest real estate sites and then analyze the data.

In this article, I will guide you through a web scraping and data visualization project.

A huge portion of the internet is news. It’s a very important type of content because there are always things happening either in our local area or globally that we want to know about.

Product data—whether from e-commerce sites, auto listings, or product reviews—offers a treasure trove of insights that can give your business an immense competitive edge in your market

The manual method of discovery for gauging online public sentiment towards a product, company, or industry is cursory at best, and at worst, may harm your business by providing incorrect or misleading insights.

Football. From throwing a pigskin with your dad, to crunching numbers to determine the probability of your favorite team winning the Super Bowl, it is a sport that's easy to grasp yet teeming with complexity.

Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the use of alternative data sources in investment decision making in hedge funds, investment banks, and private equity firms.

Web scraping can look deceptively easy these days. There are numerous open-source libraries/frameworks, visual scraping tools, and data extraction tools that make it very easy to scrape data from a website.

Unbeknownst to many, there is a data revolution happening in finance.
In their never ending search for alpha hedge funds and investment banks are increasingly turning to new alternative sources of data to give them an informational edge over the market.