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 <[email protected]> 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
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