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INDUSTRY TRENDS Feb 26 2021

The Data Factory, Part Three: Applying your data

This is part three of a series of posts exploring the Data Factory, the premier approach to data management. If you missed it, catch up on Part Two: Transforming your data here. In our previous post, we explored the second stage of data management: transforming your data into usable, clean information. The third stage in our data factory journey is where we begin to unleash the potential of the data that we’ve worked painstakingly to acquire and transform. How to apply your data The application stage is where portfolio managers, research heads and quantitative analysts begin to determine how they...

INDUSTRY TRENDS Feb 04 2021

The Data Factory, Part Two: Transforming your data

This is part two of a series of posts exploring the Data Factory, the premier approach to data management. If you missed it, catch up on Part One: Acquiring the right data here. In this post, we’ll tackle the stage that comes after finding the right data for your business’ needs: transforming the data so that it’s usable and reliable in application. Data quality assurance The truth of the matter is that raw, real-world data can have a multitude of problems—it can be messy, noisy, unstructured and full of gaps, errors, outliers and duplicates. Before portfolio managers and research heads...

INDUSTRY TRENDS Jan 20 2021

The Data Factory, Part One: Acquiring the right data

This is part one of a series of blog posts exploring the data factory, the premier approach to data management. In the assembly line model that powers the data factory, as with many other things, well begun is half done. The first stage in any data process is acquiring the right data for your organization’s needs. The process of acquiring data involves a number of smaller steps which include sourcing; contracting; extracting, transforming and loading the data; and business development. These steps are by no means linear. They can and often do happen simultaneously. This stage is all about ensuring...

INDUSTRY TRENDS Jan 19 2021

The Data Factory

This is an introduction to a series of blog posts exploring the data factory, the premier approach to data management. The data explosion From the evolving landscape of data privacy regulation to record-breaking acquisitions in data production, distribution and analytics, the world has its eye on data. Even in the finance industry, data is no longer only the concern of quantitative funds and data scientists. To varying degrees, data is infused in the investment decision-making process for all types of investors. While a quant fund may rigorously test a dataset for months to ensure that it’s up to the task...

INDUSTRY TRENDS Dec 15 2020

Capitalizing on ETF data: In conversation with Atom Finance

Atom Finance turned to Nasdaq APIs for ETF and fund data to help fuel their research platform. Learn more about their experience with Nasdaq’s data. If you were an investor in the 80s, chances are good that you couldn’t do without a Bloomberg Terminal. The system burst onto the scene in 1982 and has remained in the investment industry’s toolkit ever since, alongside an ever-growing collection of datasets and analytics tools that help investment professionals make well-informed decisions. Data used to be a tool accessible mostly to the well-funded investor. Now, data and other information is available to investors of...

QUANDL NEWS Nov 20 2020

Introducing Hamza Khan, Quandl’s new Head of European Data

We are excited to welcome Hamza Khan as Head of European Data. In anticipation of the growing investor demand for regional data, Khan will lead Quandl’s data strategy and expand our presence in the European market. “Investor demand for European alternative data has been rising, but supply has not kept pace,” said Tammer Kamel, Head of Nasdaq’s Quandl. “Hamza understands what our customers need and can marry that with his expert knowledge of the European domain.” Khan began his career as a quantitative analyst and was the head of commodities strategy at ING prior to founding Suburbia, a technology company...

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