Hello everyone,
[People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for permission to post this so I hope you don't mind]
my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin.
I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured way, just like at Wikidata.
I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible.
Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated content.
Some links: Homepage: https://simfin.com Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1 The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578
Thanks for reading
Kind regards
Thomas
Hi Thomas.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Economics is looking to do something a bit like this. It has been moving slowly as we waited for a currency datatype to become available but that has now happened so it should start moving.
https://opencorporates.com/ is also working on something similar to this.
My comments on your Volkswagen page. * Nice presentation. Looks good * No indications of where the data comes from. How do I double check this info? * English only * Are you sure the copyright to this info isn't owned by Bloomberg or Reuters or someone?
Good luck
Joe
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM Thomas Flassbeck tf@simfin.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
[People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for permission to post this so I hope you don't mind]
my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin.
I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured way, just like at Wikidata.
I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible.
Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated content.
Some links: Homepage: https://simfin.com Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1 The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578
Thanks for reading
Kind regards
Thomas _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Hi Joe,
Thx for the reply.
I will take a look at the Project Economics, seems interesting. As far as I can see, Project Economics encompasses finance data (that we have on our site too, such as market capitalisation, net profit etc., which relates to companies) as well as economics data (that relates to countries mostly), not sure if it is a good idea to mix these 2 (seperate project finance?). But I will keep an eye on it and maybe one could think of some sort of collaboration at some point.
Thx for pointing me to opencorporates, will check them out and didn’t know them yet.
For the source checking: if you click on the left hand side on “Edit/Review” you can click on each individual entry and see all sources, if provided. We still have to work on documenting the site really, so maybe it is not obvious to find this out by yourself.
All the infos we gather and offer on the site are supposed to come directly from freely available documents (annual reports etc., SEC database; Bloomberg etc. get the data from the same sources in the end, only that they have a few thousand people working for them and thus the price).
Cheers
Thomas
Von: Joe Filceolaire Gesendet: Montag, 19. Oktober 2015 19:24 An: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Hi Thomas.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Economics is looking to do something a bit like this. It has been moving slowly as we waited for a currency datatype to become available but that has now happened so it should start moving.
https://opencorporates.com/ is also working on something similar to this.
My comments on your Volkswagen page.
* Nice presentation. Looks good
* No indications of where the data comes from. How do I double check this info?
* English only
* Are you sure the copyright to this info isn't owned by Bloomberg or Reuters or someone?
Good luck
Joe
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM Thomas Flassbeck tf@simfin.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
[People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for permission to post this so I hope you don't mind]
my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin.
I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured way, just like at Wikidata.
I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible.
Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated content.
Some links: Homepage: https://simfin.com Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1 The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578
Thanks for reading
Kind regards
Thomas _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the interesting resource you coded and shared with the Wikidata community here.
In preparing to donate CC World University and School to CC Wikidata for its 3rd birthday!, World University, which is like CC Wikipedia in ~300 languages with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (and planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin) would like to create CC Universities in all countries' main languages, and in Wikidata. And WUaS plans towiki-include the CC MIT OCW Sloan School of Management/Business courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/ - and facilitate adding related databases, for example, and other fundamental economics' and financial research and data of great universities - and importantly interlingually in countries' main languages. In what ways might we explore further SimFin coding and interlingual questions together as World University and School prepares to donate WUaS to Wikidata? World University's focus nation states' main languages ( http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) might be of particular interest to you.
Concerning "feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I (Thomas) coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible" (so great, Thomas!), World University hopes to generate /recruit student volunteers and others in all 7941 languages (for WUaS wiki schools for open teaching and learning too), especially from great universities, to help with coding, data entry, making and curating as wiki CC WUaS grows.
Since you know Wikidata's structure, and interlingually too to some degree, may I be in touch with you (and possibly CLMB in Berlin) off list about some related questions?
Thank you, Thomas!
Kind regards,
Scott Hello everyone,
[People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for permission to post this so I hope you don't mind]
my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin.
I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured way, just like at Wikidata.
I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible.
Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated content.
Some links: Homepage: https://simfin.com Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1 The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578
Thanks for reading
Kind regards
Thomas
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Hi Scott,
sure you can reach me anytime at tf@simfin.com
Kind regards
Thomas
Von: Info WorldUniversity Gesendet: Montag, 19. Oktober 2015 21:50 An: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the interesting resource you coded and shared with the Wikidata community here.
In preparing to donate CC World University and School to CC Wikidata for its 3rd birthday!, World University, which is like CC Wikipedia in ~300 languages with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (and planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin) would like to create CC Universities in all countries' main languages, and in Wikidata. And WUaS plans towiki-include the CC MIT OCW Sloan School of Management/Business courses - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/ - and facilitate adding related databases, for example, and other fundamental economics' and financial research and data of great universities - and importantly interlingually in countries' main languages. In what ways might we explore further SimFin coding and interlingual questions together as World University and School prepares to donate WUaS to Wikidata? World University's focus nation states' main languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States andhttp://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) might be of particular interest to you.
Concerning "feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I (Thomas) coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible" (so great, Thomas!), World University hopes to generate /recruit student volunteers and others in all 7941 languages (for WUaS wiki schools for open teaching and learning too), especially from great universities, to help with coding, data entry, making and curating as wiki CC WUaS grows.
Since you know Wikidata's structure, and interlingually too to some degree, may I be in touch with you (and possibly CLMB in Berlin) off list about some related questions?
Thank you, Thomas!
Kind regards,
Scott
Hello everyone,
[People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for permission to post this so I hope you don't mind]
my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin.
I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured way, just like at Wikidata.
I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible.
Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated content.
Some links: Homepage: https://simfin.com Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1 The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578
Thanks for reading
Kind regards
Thomas
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