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Show HN: Simply Wall St – Pinterest for Stocks in the US, UK and Aus

#1

Post by AlBentley » Tue, Nov 18, 2014, 2:17 PM UTC

Show HN: Simply Wall St – Pinterest for Stocks in the US, UK and Aus
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#2

Post by sirances » Tue, Nov 18, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

This is really interesting concept - where are you getting all the data? Yahoo Finance API?

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#3

Post by AlBentley » Tue, Nov 18, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

sirances wrote: post #2

This is really interesting concept - where are you getting all the data? Yahoo Finance API?

Thanks man, all the data comes from S&P Capital IQ.

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#4

Post by enjoy-your-stay » Tue, Nov 18, 2014, 10:14 PM UTC

Definitely an interesting visualization for the companies.

However I suppose the Health and Future segments are a bit more analysis based, in which case they could change the whole look of the chart quite quickly if some new piece of information comes to light.

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#5

Post by JacobAldridge » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 4:10 AM UTC

Great job on the design Al - I'm engaged immediately, and look forward to exploring this when I have more time after work tonight.

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#6

Post by reduce » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 10:13 AM UTC

Doing interesting things here.