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Latest changes

September 28, 2023

Improvements

  • Dashboards: Downloading a dashboard with an active filter now includes individually selected companies in addition to tags.

Bug fixes

  • Dashboards: Fixed an issue where charts linked to a main table would not update correctly when switching from multiple to single selection.
  • Modeller: Fixed an issue that led to the complete list of model runs loading immediately instead of partially loading when scrolling down.
  • Screener: Fixed an issue where editing a screen would fail to run or save.
  • Screener: Fixed an issue that led to the complete list of companies in a screen loading immediately instead of partially loading when scrolling down.
  • Signal alpha tester: Fixed an issue that led to the entire list of runs loading immediately instead of partially loading when scrolling down.

September 19, 2023

Bug fixes

  • Analytics API: Fixed an issue where PredictonModelService.RunPredictionModel would run as the user that originally had created the model and not as the service account, as was already stated in the API reference documentation.

September 14, 2023

Improvements

  • Entity picker: list and search data set tags
  • Charts: All charts can now be configured to show labels on data points.
  • DSL: New argument upsample_daily in the resample(), agg_change(), and agg_relative_change methods() transformations. See the DSL documentation for details

Bug fixes

  • Dashboards: Fixed an issue where selecting multiple tags and then downloading a table would only include the companies that were included in all the selected tags instead of just any of the selected tags.
  • DSL: Fixed an issue where the forecast('theta') transformation would fail if the frequency of the time series could not be detected.
  • DSL: Fixed split adjustment in the trading_volume() signal.

September 12, 2023

Bug fixes

  • Import jobs: Fixed an issue where numerical entity identifiers would fail be recognised.

September 8, 2023

Improvements

  • KPI analyzer: Support KPI mappings with quarterly frequency for companies that reports semi-annually.

September 6, 2023

New features

  • DSL: Add "auto" option for the from_freq parameter in the upsample method. See the DSL documentation for further information.

September 4, 2023

New features

  • DSL: Allow specifying a list of line items in Visible Alpha signals. For each evaluation company, the line items will be tried in turn util a line item with data is found or the list is exchausted. See the DSL documentation for further information.

Changed

  • Use dates from the FactSet Fundamentals data for historical periods in the publication_date() signal, and dates from the FactSet Estimates data for future dates only. This aligns publication_date() with company_calendar(alignment='pd').

August 31, 2023

Features

  • KPI Analyzer: released a new feature for KPI analysis, in beta mode. In the KPI Analyzer, users may search for a company and identify which alternative data signals best track/proxy a given KPI for the company. See the What's New for a pending announcement with more details.

Improvements

  • Exabel APIs: End-users with the customer administrator role can retrieve your Exabel API key from the account settings page. Please reach out to support@exabel.com for help in setting this up.
  • Data Explorer: End-users can request an update of the data model for a data set. Use this if data was recently uploaded to a data set, but is missing in Data Explorer. Note: we are continuing to add better support for automatically updating Data Explorer when data is uploaded or deleted, but this manual update may be needed in some cases. Requested updates will be placed in a queue, and will usually start being processed in minutes.
  • Company/entity/tag selector: re-designed user interface with more compact grouping of entities by data set. FactSet sector tags are now organized under the "Tags" section.

Bug fixes

  • Data Explorer: Fixed an issue where the next page button was not aligned with the number of pages.
  • Signal Explorer: Fixed an issue where evaluating cross_section(…) signals failed when providing the evaluation entities.
  • DSL: Fixed an issue where publication_date() failed to evaluate with multiple companies.

August 30, 2023

Improvements

  • Data Explorer: Performance of the entity search has been improved when searching for company entities, and one can now use tickers or ISINs in the query.

August 29, 2023

Features

  • DSL: New "auto" model option for forecasting.

Improvements

  • DSL: Changed the default seasonality period for Theta forecasting models for daily time series from 7 to 365.
  • Import Jobs: Increased speed on large stages when using Snowflake (typically one time backload stages). Internally, import jobs have changed to use Snowflake Python connector and Feather file format for temporary files for quick export of data from Snowflake.

Bug fixes

  • Data API: Fixed a bug where, in some cases, a value would not be written correctly to storage. Identified cases where this would happen: a) a range of values were written, and b) consecutive versions of a timestamp was written with the same value, and c) a previous value existed at some of those timestamps