Using Alternative Data to Analyze the Economic Downturn

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Tracking shifts in business activity due to COVID 19

Real-time proxy for shifts in economic trends

In the wake of COVID-19, business activity globally is shifting dramatically. However, for a few companies/sectors, recent trends present an opportunity too.

Thinknum’s alternative data dashboard allows you to view business trends today compared to just a few weeks ago.

Energy Utilization

Track the amount of electricity generated by customers as a proxy for GDP growth.

Since March 1st, the weekly electricity demand has fallen 50.99% for company TEPCO in Japan.

Travel Agency Bookings

Traveling is among one of the industries

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Utilize Alternative Data for Competitive Intelligence

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How alternative data lets you track you competitors
Derive Alternative Insights From Marketplace Dynamics

Information is key to success in analyzing competitive intelligence and gaining an edge to stay ahead. Alternative data provides crucial insights and uncovers business strategies via multiple sources and across various industries

Tracking Hiring and Expansion

Since most corporate expenditure is spent on employment, job listings data allows you to get inside the heads of your competitors’ management. You can track if they are expanding or contracting. Analyze what skill sets they are investing in, or even geographically where they are growing.

Tracking Product Pricing

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March 22, 2022 - Product Updates and Data Additions

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New Glassdoor data

Stay ahead of competitors with our new glassdoor metrics. We’ve added data on work/life balance and senior management ratings for all of the companies we follow on glassdoor.

For investors or for competitive intelligence, employee satisfaction can be a key indicator of company health before it becomes public knowledge. As company culture becomes an increasingly highly ranked factor for job seekers, HR leaders can use these metrics for benchmarking.

Easier downloading for larger datasets

Now you can continue to navigate the Thinknum platform while downloading a large dataset. You can continue to work as your

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March 2, 2022 - Product Updates and Data Additions

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Product Updates

Recruitment analyzer

How fast are jobs being filled? With our new recruitment analyzer, see how quickly positions are being filled based on when job postings are closed. For investors, hiring speed is a good indicator of a company’s health. In talent acquisition, it’s extremely useful for competitive job marketing: use it to benchmark against competitors or to identify trends with keywords that help speed up hiring.

New Dashboard Notifications

We’ve added a new feature to the Thinknum dashboard! We have added notifications to the dashboard to easily keep track of your reports and alerts for

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March 29, 2022 - New Product Updated and Data Additions

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New Thinknum Dataset: Patent Grants

Research and development can be an important driver of long-term corporate fortunes, as it spurs innovation and invention and can drive productivity and product differentiation. Our just-released Patent Grants dataset allows investors to proxy for companies' R&D investments over time, by tracking patent grants at major corporations going back to 2005. Use it to analyze the number of patents granted and the number of claims filed, or look at the text of patent titles, descriptions, abstracts and claims.

Data Additions

Car inventory
Lookers
Emil Frey
Carvago
Manitowoc

Job listings
Doctify
QualTek
Satellogic
DreamQuark

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Learn more about Thinknum Alternative Data Today

As economic activity comes online, new data trails are left behind. The most innovative corporations and investors are using this data to get ahead.

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