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Mobile device app data is consistently popular commercially. However, in recent years, it has also been the subject of legal and regulatory actions, as well as negative media attention. For buyers, certain compliance issues are always worth considering, including data collection practices, privacy, and de-identification. While it’s always important to understand rules and best practices, knowing what’s happening on the ground can provide worthwhile insight and, in some cases, foresight. So, in this report, we share statistics and figures we’ve collected from the Neudata platform to shed light on app data compliance issues from a different angle.
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Understanding South Korea’s ecommerce landscape through alternative data
Korean ecommerce platforms have experienced a surge in business during the past three years as consumers have shifted online. In this report, we explore alternative datasets that help to understand Korea's ecommerce industry, as well as the shifts in the country’s overall retail landscape. -
Healthcare revisited – A quick 2023 bird’s-eye view
We return to an alternative data sector that consistently interests our readers – healthcare. In this report, we pull together all the healthcare resources on our platform to revisit key vendors, highlight common use cases and introduce new vendors, while also re-examining the sector from a compliance perspective. -
5G: Hype vs reality in 2023
In 2019, Forbes said the race to deploy 5G reflected a geopolitical rivalry that would determine political and economic fortunes for decades. Amid rising tensions between the US and China, Donald Trump declared “the race to 5G is a race that America must win”. Fast-forwarding to today, we outline the real 5G timeline, reasons for the slow rollout and alternative datasets that investors can use to monitor the space. -
Evaluating the impact of ETFs on emerging markets
The growth of ETF investments has coincided with the growing sensitivity of emerging market capital flows to global financial shocks. To date, the majority of studies on the subject have focused on the importance of ETFs relative to competitive instruments (e.g. mutual funds). However, only a few have examined the correlation between emerging market ETF flows and global financial shocks. We review a study that examines the role of ETFs in transmitting global financial conditions to emerging market economies. -
The Signal, September 2023: Occupational hazards
Our September edition examines recent events in the hard-to-predict labour market, based on data providers’ own findings -
Renewables – datasets and trends
Conflict in Ukraine, increased attention around the climate crisis, and China’s recent lead in EV production have fuelled concerns around global energy security and the green transition. In the US, the Biden administration has demonstrated its commitment through the Inflation Reduction Act, allocating $369bn to energy security and climate change. As the energy transition accelerates, we summarise the alternative data marketplace across renewables. -
Monitoring China’s EV sector through battery production data
China’s automobile exports surpassed Japan's for the first time in 1H23, making it the largest car exporter in the period. Electric vehicles, accounting for around a third, were the main driver of growth. Considering China produces 60% of the world’s motive batteries used to power EVs and interest we receive at Neudata on this topic, this report highlights datasets to help monitor China’s lithium-ion battery supply chain. -
Gauging Japan’s labour market using job listings and salary data
As the risk of stagflation in Japan has risen, some funds have shown interest in estimating the results of Shunto – the wage negotiations between corporations and unions that take place every March. Several data vendors are preparing to offer products that capture significant changes to inflation and wages. This report reviews studies that use corporate financial, governmental and job listings data to monitor the Japanese labour market. -
September notebook: Summer splendours + amenable vendors
Hear from Neudata's head of research on the top trends in September.