{"id":71063,"date":"2019-09-23T00:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T04:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=71063"},"modified":"2019-09-25T02:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:08:03","slug":"point72-used-big-data-to-short-weight-watchers-dave-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2019\/point72-used-big-data-to-short-weight-watchers-dave-busters.html","title":{"rendered":"Point72 Used Big Data to Short Weight Watchers, Dave &#038; Buster&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Big data gave Point72 Asset Management a fresh view into Dave &#038; Buster\u2019s Entertainment Inc. &#8212; and a reason to short the chain. Combing through geo-location data linked to anonymous credit card information, the hedge fund discovered that when customers went to entertainment venue Topgolf for the first time, their spending at a nearby Dave &#038; Buster\u2019s went down immediately, Matthew Granade, who oversees Point72\u2019s big data efforts,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-20\/point72-used-big-data-to-short-weight-watchers-dave-buster-s\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Big data gave Point72 Asset Management a fresh view into Dave &#038; Buster\u2019s Entertainment Inc. &#8212; and a reason to short the chain. Combing through geo-location data linked to anonymous credit card information, the hedge fund discovered that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71064,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71063\/revisions\/71064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}