This is pretty great. I am convinced there is lots of room in this space for services that cater to people who aren't quite in the Bloomberg terminal crowd, and yet would benefit from easy access to financial data for whatever reason. I've been working on a service to open up EDGAR data to more people: www.easyedgar.com (pre-launch). Not quite as fancy as Penny Whale but I think a lot of people just want the data in their spreadsheet and don't know how to do that.
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#32What is the source of the data? It seems crazy to provide EPS estimates (etc.) without the source.
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#33not sure if this is the right place to report bugs (and/or if this is intended behavior), but if one clicks the COMPUTE button without a query entered, it decrements the guest query counter
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#34What is the source of the data? It seems crazy to provide EPS estimates (etc.) without the source.
We're pooling a lot of disparate sources (Yahoo, Morningstar, NASDAQ, etc.)
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#35Neat. I can see myself using this.
Two bugs: "$brkb book value per share" gives a number that's way off. "$brk.a book value per share" and "$_x EV/EBITDA" yield apparent server side errors.
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#36Neat. I can see myself using this. Two bugs: "$brkb book value per share" gives a number that's way off. "$brk.a book value per share" and "$_x EV/EBITDA" yield apparent server side errors.
Thanks for the catches. We're still refining our data sources so we'll look into these.
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#37How does this compare to Bloomberg? From what I've seen, people in the financial services industry have gotten very good at using the Bloomberg Terminal commands to examine this kind of data.
FYI You can literally ask the same question to the terminal -- we process English language queries (and can resolve textual company names to tickers :)).
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#38This is cool! We've been working on something similar, but the opposite direction (for world trade data). Instead of trying to NLP our way out of the problem, we pre-generate and index a bunch of possible questions, and let full text search handle the rest. It's interesting, because theoretically NLP should be able to "understand" what you mean but in reality I find that even if you parse sentence structure and extra…
Couple of years back, I implemented a natural-language-ish solution for querying ERP data. My approach was to
a. have structured queries that can be precisely parsed
b. provide query completion to guide the user while entering the query
It turned out quite well, if I say so myself. But I never got the time to market it.
It can be seen in action here: http://nlq.lavadip.com/servlet/demo
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#39Congrats! Looks good! Small issue: you're calling Google fonts over HTTP, but your site uses HTTPS, so Chrome is blocking the request. This leads to your fonts rendering in the default (Times New Roman here). [blocked] The page at ' https://www.pennywhale.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from ' http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700' : this content should also be loaded over HT…
Does indeed look good. Have to say, love the logo. Think it would drop into a favicon nicely too.. Congrats
I don't know about the logo. It immediately made me think of docker. That could be an issue.
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#40"Show me the UK's GDP" doesn't.