October 2022 update

Revamped charting in Signal Explorer and saving of charts to the Library; a new Financial Models feature; revamped File Uploader; star your Library objects for easy access; and public sharing links for partners.

New features

Revamped charts

Charts in the Signal Explorer have been revamped, and may now be saved and shared as objects in your Library. New chart types are now available, and you now have much more control over chart settings. Read the full announcement here.

Financial models

Financial models allow you to map company KPIs to alternative data signals, combining data from multiple sources and aggregating it to a company's fiscal quarters. Read the full announcement here.

Revamped File Uploader

Uploading Excel files will now create and update raw data signals with the Data API. This harmonizes all data import methods (API, SDK, File Uploader, Import Jobs) and means that uploaded data can now be accessed and manipulated through the Data API.

The new File Uploader now allows for additional company identifiers that are supported in the Data API, enables point-in-time support on uploaded data, and also accepts .csv files.

Library starred items

We've added a new feature to star any object in your Library for easy access. These items will appear under "Starred Items", and allow you to quickly find your favourite signals, dashboards, etc.

Any dashboards that were previous pinned have been automatically converted to starred items.

Public sharing links (partners only)

Drill-down pages can now be shared with non-logged in users. The drill-down is shared as-viewed and the underlying data does not update. Access to this feature is enabled for users from our data partners and requires the legal right to share the data. Please contact us ([email protected]) to learn more!

Improvements

• Signal explorer: Improvements to overall performance.
• Signal explorer: Table view can now be transposed and sorted ascending/descending by date.
• Library: All library objects can now be starred for easy access under "Starred Items" in the Library.
• Library: Descriptions may now be edited for Screens, Dashboards, Drill-downs and Portfolio strategies.
• Library picker: Adopted the updated Library design in the "picker" modals used to select signals and other objects - e.g. select signals to add in Signal Explorer.
• Import jobs: SQL queries may now be written with case-insensitive column names. There is no longer any need to alias columns to lowercase column names.
• Import jobs: When loading entities, the first column is now used to create the entity (resource) name and the second column is used to set the display name. The columns no longer need to be named name and display_name.
• Import jobs: Upload speed has been improved.
• DSL: Support global time series in graph_signal(...). If a graph_signal(...) only has global data, it now always returns that data, even if it is evaluated for a different entity. This allows for example adding together graph signals with data for entities with global graph signals.
• DSL: Allow the [] bracket operator, which does column selection, to work on all types of signals, including those which return time series for multiple entities. Assuming a signal returns time series for multiple regions, where one of them is named "Europe", you can now do: graph_signal(…)['Europe'] to select that time series.
• DSL: Add alpha parameter to control width of the confidence band for unobserved components forecasts, and include the confidence band for the in-sample period.
• Export API: Download speed has been improved when exporting signals for a large set of companies / entities.
• Python SDK: version 4.0.0 release (more details). Python 3.6 is no longer supported.

Bug fixes

• Signal explorer: Fixed issue for unnamed signals which did not display in the table view
• Signal explorer: Fixed issue with the series visibility toggle for charts plotted with a tag of entities.
• Signal explorer: Fixed issue with Copy chart functionality in Safari and Firefox
• Financial models: Fixed issue in edit mode when changes to the date range discarded unsaved row changes.
• Import Jobs: fixed syntax highlighting issue with trailing newline in query
• DSL: Fix bug in series_function(...) which prevented it from being used on results from the portfolio allocation signal.