December 30, 2019

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Rumpelstiltskin and the financial markets

Rumpelstiltskin and the financial markets

Can you really use unstructured data as part of your investment process? Why are leading financial services firms building practices to handle all sorts of data from satellite to browsing? Is the IoT a significant data point for financial analysis? Rob Passarella explores current applications and use cases for data, which financial services firms are eagerly gobbling up with alpha in mind.
Talk Title Rumpelstiltskin and the financial markets
Speakers Robert Passarella (Alpha Features)
Conference Strata Data Conference
Conf Tag Make Data Work
Location New York, New York
Date September 26-28, 2017
URL Talk Page
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Can you really use unstructured data as part of your investment process? Why are leading financial services firms building practices to handle all sorts of data from satellite to browsing? Is the IoT a significant data point for financial analysis? Rob Passarella explores current applications and use cases for data, which financial services firms are eagerly gobbling up with alpha in mind.

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