[Chicago] XBRL

[Michael Tamillow]

I know this is a little away from the technical aspects, but what about the
data vendor do you not like. Is it the price? Have you done a cost/benefit
if so? Or are the going under, producing subpar data, delaying the data too
much?

I am sure you could figure out everything it takes to scrape and normalize
the data, but I would assume that if you could estimate a price that you
felt it would cost you to do it on your own, you would be able to
negotiate, if that is the underlying issue.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Thomas Johnson <thomas.j.johnson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What I'm really trying to do with the data is replace one of our existing
> data vendors. Basically my startup (FactorWave.com) uses peer-reviewed
> research from academia and hedge funds to score stocks on various factors.
> A lot of that research depends on fundamental data. I think our current
> vendor is mostly just scraping and normalizing the XBRL data, so if I can
> do that myself it would save us money as well as give us access to more
> timely and more fine-grained data.
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:24 PM Mike Tamillow <mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just out of curiosity, are you trying to do anything particular with the
>> data, or just looking to master a skill?
>>
>> I know Sentdex briefly shows accessing SEC data on YouTube from Python.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Thomas Johnson <thomas.j.johnson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah I've been taking a look at different parsing packages. I'm
>> interested more in potential pitfalls - like how often I should expect the
>> data to be wrong, what data is available (e.g., it's not clear to me if
>> forms other than 10-Q and 10-K are available), etc.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:01 PM Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you seen this Python package ?
>>> https://github.com/greedo/python-xbrl
>>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thomas, if you get anything cooking, please report back. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Thomas Johnson
>>>> <thomas.j.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > If anyone out there has experience dealing with the SEC's XBRL & XML
>>>> data
>>>> > using Python (or anything else, really) I'd love to buy you a coffee
>>>> and
>>>> > have a quick chat with you to get an overview of what's available and
>>>> the
>>>> > best ways to access it
>>>> >
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