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by kemvi 15y ago
If there were canonical sports stats data sources to include, it wouldn't be difficult. Email us at info@kemvi.com if there's something specific you have in mind.
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by kemvi 15y ago
You can't get a complete list the way it's currently set up. But SomeEntity.property(), without an argument, will give you a sample of them.
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by kemvi 15y ago
Not yet, but drop us a line at info@kemvi.com.
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by kemvi 15y ago
Coming soon, along with R and Javascript!
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by kemvi 15y ago
Thanks, it's fixed -- that shouldn't have slipped through testing.
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by kemvi 15y ago
Currently, it's great for socioeconomic data on countries, as well as for high-res socioeconomic data for the US (county resolution). There's data from the World Bank, Dept of Health, Dept of Labor, Dept of Justice, and several other publi
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by kemvi 15y ago
It's highly interconnected. For example, you can make hops like USCounty--USState--Senator--Vote on economic stimulus bill. The data backend is indeed NoSQL, but we didn't choose a graph db because there are no really good graph solutions
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by kemvi 15y ago
The idea is that you'd use this via the python shell (and soon, from your R code or Javascript code), and not through the website. Looks like we need to make that clearer. The website stack is Postgres+Django+Python.
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Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data(kemvi.com)
24 points by kemvi 15y ago|16 comments
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by kemvi 15y ago
I had heard of these guys, but hadn't seen their site in months. Sounds like they're doing something pretty similar, which is exciting, because it means they've tested the business model.
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by kemvi 15y ago
The freemium model is exactly what I was thinking. And, yes: Rapidminer, Weka, etc, are all on the desktop. Thanks for the motivation.
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by kemvi 15y ago
Great, thanks! I knew of timetric, mentioned below, but not about these. I suppose there's a strong selection bias. The business model probably should be B2B: I imagine the users would be companies that need to do business intelligence, jo
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Ask HN: Is this data startup idea viable?
10 points by kemvi 15y ago|9 comments