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 firms 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. By applying methods similar to primary research for banking, the team ensured a structured approach to extracting actionable insights from diverse datasets.

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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