Changelog

Improved

Improved DSL for temporal change calculations

We have improved the signal.change() and signal.relative_change() DSL functions for temporal change (eg QoQ, YoY) to better handle irregular quarterly calendars.

Improved

July 2022 update

New Import Jobs feature for direct Snowflake integration; dashboard tables now scale to tens of thousands of rows; new Signal Explorer with re-designed user experience and support for non-company entities.

Added

Introducing Import Jobs

We're excited to launch a new Import Jobs feature, which provides a direct Snowflake integration for you to easily bring your data into Exabel. This furthers our goal of helping customers analyze all their alternative data in one place, leveraging Exabel’s analytics to combine data sets and derive differentiated insights.

Improved

June 2022 update

Support for creating and editing tags with non-company entities; in-app What's New updates; more diagnostics on portfolio strategy & alpha test results; new DSL functions for factor neutralization & cross-sectional correlation; and expanded Library management via external APIs.

Deprecated

Planned deprecation - SDK REST client

We are planning to deprecate the experimental REST client in the Exabel Python SDK. You will not be affected by this change, unless you use the SDK and have explicitly chosen to use the REST client in your data pipelines.

Deprecated

Planned deprecations - June 2022

We are planning to deprecate the following product features, in order to continuously streamline and simplify our user experience, and because these are either no longer used, or have been replaced by other functionality.

Improved

May 2022 update

DSL improvements for univariate forecasting, Z-scores & p-values, and retrieving detailed backtest results from Alpha Tests & Portfolio Strategies; easier integration of Prediction Models on Dashboards, and download of model backtests & predictions; and other improvements & fixes.

Improved

Improved univariate forecasting

We have released support for more univariate forecasting models, together with a cleaner, generalized interface to make such forecasts through a new forecast() DSL function.