Resources
Discover our insightful collection of resources and learn how investment firms and corporations leverage external data to generate actionable insights, make strategic decisions and create alpha-generating trading algorithms.
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External Data: The New Standard for Business Intelligence
As economic activity comes online, operators get holistic views of their industries with external data. In this report, we cover use cases of external, alternative data for corporate strategy, HR analytics, shared economy businesses and trend forecasting.
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Understand Your Customers and Competitors with Alternative Data Insights
Commercial banks need real-time information to understand and grow their customer base, stay ahead of market trends, and gain an edge over competitors. Read on to learn how customer reviews, social media traction, corporate job listings, and other sources of web-based alternative data drive business decisions and competitive intelligence efforts.
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See Through the Bull: Track Private Business Activity Like Never Before with Alternative Data
Savvy private equity investors use Thinknum's alternative data to bridge the information gap between public and private markets. Read on to learn how investors in private markets leverage alternative data for actionable insights.
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External Data Guide to People Analytics
Innovative HR leaders leverage external data to gain actionable insights on labor market trends. Download the External Data Guide to People Analytics to stay ahead of your competitors' hiring and recruitment tactics, employee sentiment, competitive job marketing, diversity and inclusion metrics, and more.
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Alternative Data & Nowcasting for Financial Markets
Enable Nowcasting with Real-Time Alternative Data Insights: Thinknum’s Alternative Data, updated daily, plugs the information gap for estimates of economic variables that are announced relatively infrequently and with long delays. The most innovative investors leverage alternative data to form complete signals around underlying economic activity in real-time.
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Conquer Growth Equity with Data-Driven Insights
As business activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. Savvy growth equity investors use this alternative data to plug the information gap between public and private markets. Read on to find out how Thinknum’s alternative web data can help you track business activity like never before.
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External Data for Consulting Firms: Insights and Use Cases
Many companies have achieved strong improvements in growth and productivity by collecting and using data from their own internal activities. Now, external web data – from social media activity, product reviews, employee sentiment, and more – are helping companies unlock further improvements in business outcomes. Read on to find out how the most innovative consultants are using Thinknum’s web data to help their clients edge out the competition.
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Alpha-Generating Insights for the Industrials Sector
As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative investors leverage this real-time data for actionable insights in the industrials sector. Thinknum’s alternative datasets power alpha-generating investment decisions across industrials companies.
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Alpha-Generating Insights for Healthcare Investors
As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative healthcare investors leverage this real-time data for actionable insights. Thinknum’s alternative datasets power alpha-generating investment decisions across the healthcare industry.
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Get a God's-eye View of European Markets
As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative investors leverage this data for alpha-generating insights. Thinknum’s alternative datasets power investment decisions across companies listed in all major European exchanges.
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Alternative Data Applications: A Guide for Small Cap Investors
Finding information on small companies is a time-consuming process that can yield trace quantities of traditional market data. But even the smallest companies leave behind swathes of actionable alternative data on the public web. The most innovative investors leverage this data for alpha-generating insights. The following use cases illustrate how Thinknum’s alternative datasets power investment decisions across companies under $2B in market capitalization.
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Generate Alpha in Australia
As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative investors leverage this data for alpha-generating insights. The following use cases illustrate how Thinknum’s alternative datasets power investment decisions across Australian companies.
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Alternative Data in the United Kingdom: Insights and Use Cases
As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative investors leverage this data for alpha-generating insights. The following use cases illustrate how Thinknum’s alternative datasets power investment decisions across UK companies.
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Using Alternative Data to Predict Auto Market Movements
Follow and forecast sales/inventory trends in the global auto industry. Dive deeper into the details where you can see the following items and more: unique car identifier (e.g.VIN), stock type (new, used), days in stock, price, year, make, model, mileage, derivatives (body, trim, transmission, engine, fuel, etc.)
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Weave Alternative Data into Your Long-Term Investment Strategies
Some investors think that alternative data is more useful for trading around earnings. That isn't the case anymore, as long term investors have been able to benefit from new research processes rooted on alternative datasets. Check out a few examples inside this guide.
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How VCs are Using Alternative Data to Find the Next Unicorn
Leading firms harness the power of alternative data to identify fast growing startups. Download our guide for VCs to see how you can leverage alternative data to track companies in realtime and find the top competitors for your investment decision.
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Alternative Data Guide for Retail Industry
Business intelligence officers and investors analyze retail industry in real time with alternative data. Download our Alternative Data Guide for Retail Industry to learn about the latest applications and datasets including - store openings and closures, product pricing, job listings and more.
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Alternative Data Report - How Urgent Care Centers Disrupt US Retail Healthcare
Sometimes a primary-care doctor isn’t available. Other times, an emergency room isn’t necessary. Somewhere in between is the growing urgent-care industry. We take a look at 12 of the biggest players in this new space that’s redefining retail healthcare.