Nontraditional data is THE future of investing and engineers are best suited to find it. For instance, if you wanted to know who was spending the most to acquire users, wouldn't it make sense to get bid data from ad exchanges? If you wanted to know which were the most anticipated games of the year, wouldn't the Reddit API be the tool you'd use to check? And if you wanted to predict crop yields, wouldn't satellite data of crop fields be the most realtime way to see it? Traditional equity research doesn't do this - but we do and we've seen it work. We're building a system to systematize our capabilities.
The scale of what we're trying accomplish is no easy feat - we handle realtime data at very high throughputs and analyze datasets > 1TB in an environment where accuracy and speed counts. Our output has a real impact on investment decisions.
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