Detroit 2019 Analytics Symposium Video: Abraham Thomas
How Alternative Data is Redefining Capital Markets
Abraham Thomas - Co-Founder & CDA, Quandl
Since the dawn of Wall Street, investors have sought an edge: a source of advantage they could leverage to beat the market. It’s the only way to win in the zero sum game of institutional investing. Today that edge comes from information found within the exabytes of data we all create every single day of our lives; something made possible by the technology boom of the 90s along with Moore’s Law of improvements in processing power and data storage.