Freerisk.org - Freeing financial data and modeling(freerisk.org)
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Freerisk.org - Freeing financial data and modeling
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Secwatch.com is a competitor. I like freerisk's description of the filings better though secwatch has way more data.
Hmm, I think the primary thing that freerisk is looking to provide is a platform to allow people to easily build models and analysis on top of the financial data, and in turn, do interesting things to snuff out value through things like leaderboards, etc. Secwatch, on the other hand, just provides financial data, really.
That said, I think the world kinda needs more stuff like this: I think a big reason that people (on average) don't reason well about investments and the markets and all that is that, at large, its just out of reach.
But making it easy to people to plug in and build models, and in turn ranking the models in a useful way to help people see which ones are actually useful is a great start to really turning the web into a bit of a "distributed investment analyst" in the cloud, or something.
Needless to say, it wont be THAT useful without a richer set of data (ie: ticker prices, blah blah blah), but its something, at least.
That said, I think the world kinda needs more stuff like this: I think a big reason that people (on average) don't reason well about investments and the markets and all that is that, at large, its just out of reach.
But making it easy to people to plug in and build models, and in turn ranking the models in a useful way to help people see which ones are actually useful is a great start to really turning the web into a bit of a "distributed investment analyst" in the cloud, or something.
Needless to say, it wont be THAT useful without a richer set of data (ie: ticker prices, blah blah blah), but its something, at least.
for more information on the project, watch the talk from ETech -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhAIPGjCps
There's autocompletion for Berkshire Hathaway; but when I select (say, the A-class shares), the results text yields and error when I select Go!
Any reason why the data is only 2 or 3 years?
Nice project. If only OpenTick were still around as well. The combination would be nice.
i guess both, the lack of data and small bugs are due to the fact that it's a fairly young project. but i really like the ideas behind it, and when they get the API done, i'm curios what people will start to build on it.
Doesn't seem to work atm? (No results for "Microsoft")
Querying "MSFT" works: http://freerisk.org/viewtables?ticker=MSFT
If you type the name of a company really fast (not the ticker) and hit enter before the autocomplete pops up, it will not find any information. Example of the url you get when you type "Microsoft" really fast http://freerisk.org/viewtables?ticker=Microsoft which doesn't work.