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February 2022 update

over 2 years ago by Zac Yang

The new Data Explorer for browsing and searching raw signals; improved data and chart exports from Signal Explorer; SDK functionality for entity and relationship properties. Deprecation of peers/suppliers/customers functionality.

New features

Data Explorer

We have launched the new Data Explorer feature, which allows you to browse and search for raw data signals - these are signals that you import via API/SDK, or that are available to you through partner subscriptions.

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Browsing for raw data signals available on a company, and then narrowing down to a specific data set and signal

Click here to try out Data Explorer, or by clicking "Data Management" → "Data Explorer" on the Exabel menubar.

Signal Explorer exports

We now support limited export of data from Signal Explorer, for derived signals that have been marked as exportable - these are typically signals from Exabel partner subscriptions. Additionally, a limited number of signal DSL functions (such as model_by_id to retrieve model predictions) are always exportable, when used in a derived signal.

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Limited exports - why?

We do not allow export of all derived signals by default because of licensing limitations with Factset and other market data sources. Currently, derived signals have to be marked as exportable by Exabel admins. We are planning further enhancements here to automatically detect if a given signal should be exportable, as long as it does not utilize any data that has restricted licensing.

Additionally, we have broadened support for exporting charts from Signal Explorer. You may now copy a chart to your clipboard (& paste in any external document / email / etc), or download a chart as a PDF or PNG image.

Exabel SDK

The Exabel SDK, and specifically its command-line scripts, now support importing entities with properties on a per-entity basis. This is through the optional property-columns argument.

There is also a new update_relationship_type script to update relationship type properties, including the ownership property.

Deprecations

  • Prediction Models: removed the option to use data from a target’s peers/customers/suppliers - this feature was not widely used, and we have discontinued using the Factset supply chain feed

Improvements

  • General: retrieve static resources from static.exabel.com
  • Prediction models: show prediction model type (TS vs ML) when viewing a given model
  • Partner pages: open partner’s external website in new tab

Bug fixes

  • Dashboards: fixed tag filters being persisted incorrectly when switching dashboards
  • Charts: fixed issue with signals not using their configured decimal precision & percentage formatting - was affecting drill-down tooltips
  • Prediction models: allow user to change selected tag when choosing to “Use data from a specific tag”, under input signals
  • Signal Explorer: fixed issue with deep-links where the selected plot type was not respected