March 15 - 17, 2021
| Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
Abraham Thomas
Founder and chief data officer Quandl
Abraham
Thomas is Quandl’s co-founder and Chief Data Officer. An expert
data analyst, Abraham handles all data-related operations for Quandl:
identification, acquisition, curation, organization and
dissemination.
Abraham co-founded Quandl after a successful career on Wall Street, where he
was the youngest ever trader at a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund. At
this fund, Abraham conceived, designed and executed a number of
quantitative data-driven investment strategies while managing a
$300mn arbitrage portfolio, building cutting-edge trading technology
along the way. Abraham has a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.
Conference Day Two: July 1 2020
Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
9:50 AM Panel: Keeping a competitive edge past the use of alt data
- Now the value of alt data is understood, where do we go from here?
- Leveraging data from multiple sources and expert research networks
- Using analysis surrounding people and connectivity to gain deeper insights
1:35 PM In and out: The making of an alternative dataset
- Case study covering the life-cycle of a single alternative dataset, covering every stage of the data pipeline
- Aggregating and anonymizing data while retaining its information content
- Using ML and human-in-the-loop techniques to process incomplete or ambiguous input data
