Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) Detailed Unit Level Data with Common Factory-ID is now available to Columbia University students. The Library has data from 1998 to 2014. The Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) is the principal source of Industrial Statistics in India. The ASI extends to the entire country except the States of Arunachal Pradesh […]
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Getting Started with TwitteR
Recently, I used TwitteR package to scrap data from Twitter for sentiment data analysis. Here is a step by step guide on how to get started. Download the TwitteR package and make it available in your R session Set up Twitter account for API access You need to have a twitter account. Go to https://apps.twitter.com […]
New Dataset: Infogroup’s Historical Business File
Columbia University has access to the Infogroup’s Historical Business File via WRDS. Infogroup gathers geographic location-related business and residential data from various public data sources, such as local yellow pages, credit card billing data, etc. The Infogroup database at WRDS contains two packages: Historical Business and Historical Residential, both of which largely focus on US […]
Using Python, R, MATLAB APIs for Datastream!
Do you know that in addition to Excel API, now you can also extract data easily from Datastream by using Python or MATLAB? For Python: PyDatastream is a Python interface to the Thomson Dataworks Enterprise (DWE) SOAP API (non free), with some convenience functions for retrieving Datastream data specifically. This package requires valid credentials for […]
New database: Preqin Infrastructure Online
Preqin’s Infrastructure Online is “the leading source of intelligence on the infrastructure industry. This constantly updated resource includes details for all aspects of the asset class, including infrastructure transactions, fund managers, strategic investors and trade buyers, net-to-investor fund performance, fundraising information, institutional investor profiles and more.” (Publisher Information) […]
New database: Lipper Hedge Fund Database (TASS)
Columbia University Libraries now have access to Lipper Hedge Fund Database (TASS) via Wharton Research Data Services. Please note that Lipper Hedge Fund Database is accessible via Thomson Reuters underneath “Current Subscriptions” on the Wharton Research Data Services homepage. Publisher information: “Thomson Reuters Lipper Hedge Fund database is an indispensable resource for institutional asset managers, high […]
Resource spotlight: FRED!
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) allows users to download, graph, and track 237,000 US and international time series from 68 sources. For details check out the post on Watson’s Facebook page! […]
New dataset: GMI Analyst AGR (Emerging Markets)
Columbia University Libraries now have access to GMI Analyst Accounting and Governance Risk (AGR) ratings on 9,000 companies in nearly 60 emerging market countries. […]
New database: Capital Cube
Capital Cube provides comprehensive stock analysis on over 45,000 stocks and ETFs including scores and in-depth reports on fundamental analysis, likely corporate actions, dividend quality, and earnings quality. It is a great tool for fundamental analysis on companies as Capital Cube converts raw statistics into meaningful interpretations by comparing them to key competitors, and providing […]
New databases: CapEx & Prowess from CMIE
CapEx provides information and data on investment projects that involve the setting up of new capacities in India. New capacities to be created in India Location of plant or facilities being created Costs involved in creating new capacities Name and contact details of promoters, co-promoters and other associates Progress of implementation based on scanning of […]