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Quandl – Find, Use and Share Numerical Data
- jimmoores 12y agoThere's real breadth in their data sources and that's the real unique thing here: the technology itself is not the important thing, it's the data and the agreements they've established with the data providers.
- buro9 12y agoThere's a London startup building a similar thing: https://ketch.io/ https://ketch.io/ They allow people to define the source of some metric, and then will keep the value up to date, plot it over time, allow the rules (how to fetch the metric) to be re-used by others (share a single "Fetch currency rate" rule and it can be used for all currencies). Ketch haven't managed to solve the marketing problem yet. I'm also sure that there are others in this space too. What I find with all of these things though is that there are a few key questions: 1. How recent is the data? (Not just pulled from source, but what is the total lag of all parts of the chain) 2. How powerful are the built-in tools for extracting insight from the data? You either have now problems and need speed and accuracy, or you have insight problems and need the ability to slice and dice, by time and comparing to other metrics.
- conjectures 12y agoNot sure 2) is a real issue. There's a huge range of data and even more questions that could be asked of it. I doubt any pre-baked settings are going to be useful.
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- conjectures 12y agoQuandl makes it really easy to get hold of the underlying data. Definitely one to keep bookmarked for 'I wonder what...' situations.
- abuteau 12y agoBeen following Quandl for a while and really love where they are going with Premium dataset. I've been looking for a while for good fundamental stocks data via an API. There's xignite but they are overly complicated and expensive. Much better solution then scrapping all morningstar website for 10years fundamentals.