Leading South African bank: Alternative data analysis to differentiate equity research

  •  500m+

    real-estate property data points

  • 4

    websites

  • 100%

    automated


CLIENT PROFILE AND CHALLENGES
  • Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications Research, Data Science Team
  • Lack of organised sector-specific data limited the insight-generation process to track market developments
  • Acuity team was brought in to enable equity research analysts to interactively analyse the up-to-date sector data from all regions in South Africa, extracting insights and statistical inferences, enabling accurate and efficient real estate investment decisions
OUR APPROACH
  • Built extraction engines to ingest, cleanse, process and standardise millions of data points on a daily basis
  • Conducted statistical analyses to analyse weekly trends, extracting insights on changes per region and property type over time
  • Designed self-service analytics tools to monitor business-specific statistical KPIs
IMPACT DELIVERED
  • Enabled equity research analysts to extract weekly insights to support their real estate sector analysis of different regions and commercial types
  • Helped researchers build models and training datasets to forecast supply and demand factors
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