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Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
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Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

by Stefan Jansen
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
684 pages
21h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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The market for alternative data

The investment industry is going to spend an estimated to $2,000,000,000-3,000,000,000 on data services in 2018, and this number is expected to grow at double digits per year in line with other industries. This expenditure includes the acquisition of alternative data, investments in related technology, and the hiring of qualified talent.

A survey by Ernst and Young shows significant adoption of alternative data in 2017; 43% of funds are using scraped web data, for instance, and almost 30% are experimenting with satellite data. Based on the experience so far, fund managers considered scraped web data and credit card data to be most insightful, in contrast to geolocation and satellite data, which around 25% ...

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ISBN: 9781789346411