Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
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Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#2How 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.
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#3It's slow to load at the moment, so I'll describe what it does.
PennyWhale lets you search, manipulate, and compare financial data with natural language queries along the lines of "how much cash does $GOOG have" and "show me the PE ratio for $AAPL".
Seems like a really good research tool!
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#4Do you have to use one of their example questions for a free demonstration? I asked one of the questions and it asked me to log in.
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#5How 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.
Fundamentally, PennyWhale is targeted at a different market. While Bloomberg is tremendously powerful, it's also very expensive. We think there's an opportunity for the retail investors here.
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#6This 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 extract some meaning, you're still at some level hardcoding the possible things that can be queried into the code.
So it's a neat tradeoff of whether it's more worth it to create a mini query language, or go full natural language, or go somewhere in between.
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Anyway, try it out by clicking on the title (keeping it a bit hidden for now for testing purposes): http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/usa/all...
Things you can try (mix and match too!):
- "wine italy" - "france" - "germany spain" - "germany export wine 2002 to 2012" - "turkey feasible"
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If you want to see the code, check out our github:
https://github.com/cid-harvard/atlas-economic-complexity/blo... (search view)
https://github.com/cid-harvard/atlas-economic-complexity/blo... (indexer)
Apologies for any mess, I recently joined and we're undergoing a huge overhaul right now.
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#7Do you have to use one of their example questions for a free demonstration? I asked one of the questions and it asked me to log in.
What did you ask? There are a few premium features right now (holdings data, interactive financials). If you want to make an account I'll give you a free upgrade :)
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#8It's a pity you have to specify a ticker. I was really hoping it can do the hard work for me.
https://www.pennywhale.com/app/queries/execute?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#9Pretty interesting effort, but a bit of constructive criticism:
- none of your query results have a date attached! While pretty, an earnings number without a date is like a chart without an axis.
- Just how natural can the queries be? "$AAPL sales estimates" did not return anything. Neither did "$CAT cost of capital". "quarterly $CAT earnings growth" gave me a single EBIDTA number", e.g. not what asked. Is it easier to start with simple dropdowns?
- Why the stocktwits $ prefix? Why cant a company name be used?
- Another "sad face" feature - every not found/no results query takes away a "free query" :(
On more positive note, things look really clean - good job on the design! A great start. Is the long-term idea here to build an accessible place for fundamental data research?
What value added are you providing in your premium product (aside from heatmap) over just going over to EDGAR archive?
Ping me directly - would love to provide more feedback!
Edit: fix formatting :)
Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data
#10Pretty interesting effort, but a bit of constructive criticism: - none of your query results have a date attached! While pretty, an earnings number without a date is like a chart without an axis. - Just how natural can the queries be? "$AAPL sales estimates" did not return anything. Neither did "$CAT cost of capital". "quarterly $CAT earnings growth" gave me a single EBIDTA number", e.g. not what asked. Is it easier…
Would love your email for feedback :) Or just shoot me an email at chintan@pennywhale.com. Thanks!