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Elan Gore

TMI Data Science

TMI Data Science utilizes Natural Language Processing to build custom leading indicators using unstructured data sourced from the global financial, trade & traditional media.  Our proprietary software, TMI Machine, is a text-mining platform designed with the buy-side & capital markets professional in mind, text-mining the global media to discern and quantify nuanced qualitative shifts in press coverage as they apply to macroeconomics, equity indexes/ETFs, commodities, currencies, fixed income & individual equities.  TMI provides custom leading indicators and systematic trading strategies, operating at the nexus of linguistics & statistics drawing on vast experience in investment banking and hedge fund settings in senior quantitative and fundamental roles.  

TMI Data Science was founded by Elan Gore, an award-winning Senior Global Basic Materials Equity Analyst & China Economist with 15 years of experience in North American hedge funds & institutional managers; and Alessandro Porrino, Ph.D., an Algorithmic Trading Analyst and Programmer with 10 years of front-office experience ranging from complex FX option pricing to auto-hedging strategies at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Standard Chartered.  Mr. Gore holds an MBA in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business, and Mr. Porrino holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Brunel University London.

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<li>Earlier this month, the term "vaccine hesitancy" saw record mentions across the media on concern of "staggeringly low" confidence in COVID-19 vaccines (as per President-Elect Biden in a December 3 CNN interview, for example)</li>
<li>Although official surveys still suggest uptake intentions are in the low-60%s, both survey data and our own sentiment data suggest these figures have been encouragingly moving in the right direction and continue to improve in the MTD, supporting prevailing consensus recovery views for 2021 predicated on the vaccine rollout</li>
<li>A potential concern on the issue of vaccine uptake is the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant in the UK and potential public perception of reduced vaccine effectiveness as a result of mutations; thus far public health officials have dismissed such notions, but questions are likely to linger until more conclusive data is available</li>
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Earlier this month, the term "vaccine hesitancy" saw record mentions across the media on concern of "staggeringly low" confidence in COVID-19 vaccines (as per President-Elect Biden in a December 3 CNN interview, for example)
Although official surveys still suggest uptake intentions are in the low-60%s, both survey data and our own sentiment data suggest these figures have been encouragingly moving in the right direction and continue to improve in the MTD, supporting prevailing consensus recovery views for 2021 predicated on the vaccine rollout
A potential concern on the issue of vaccine uptake is the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant in the UK and potential public perception of reduced vaccine effectiveness as a result of mutations; thus far public health officials have dismissed such notions, but questions are likely to linger until more conclusive data is available


TMI Data Science utilizes Natural Language Processing to build custom leading indicators using unstructured data sourced from the global financial, trade &amp; traditional media. Our proprietary software text-mines the global media to discern and quantify nuanced qualitative shifts in press coverage as they apply to macroeconomics, equity indexes/ETFs, commodities, currencies, fixed income &amp; individual equities. 


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