Tesseract Analytics
Data
financial data database
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Tesseract Analytics
Database for analyzing US companies, visualize using Apache SuperSet
tesseractanalytics.ai#sec edgar data#stock analysis#apache superset#financial database
How HN took it
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Execution: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive project and visualization of data
From 1 comment
I have no use for this but I've gotta say this is pretty awesome, great job!
hanniabu on HN
Apache Superset is mature and future proof
From 2 comments
It got better and better and is still around. Their base technology server side (Sql Alchemy/ Pandas) and client side (React Antd, Apache Echarts) is future proof.
hackandthink on HNWell its a top-level apache project nowadays.
kakoni on HN
Objections
Sign-up asks for too much personal information
From 2 comments
It's unusual to require or even ask for personal information joining name, email, and phone number to register, especially for a free site from an untrusted source. There's no…
dventimihasura on HNThis is cool! Signed up, your phone number part of UI seems unnecessary to even collect and the UI is bad
snapcaster on HN
Registration and query errors
From 3 comments
Interesting! Whenever I am in a more active investing phase I feel like I don't have the data available I would like to have for making decisions. I am getting 'Database error:…
btzs on HNAccount creation failed because I chose a user name that already existed. When I changed the username, account creation failed because my email and phone were already taken. I…
koromak on HNIs it just me or this website is completely broken on the desktop?
sdfghswe on HN
Superset feels buggy and less capable than Grafana
From 2 comments
Honestly somewhat buggy, specially the asynchronous and cached queries which were quite important to me.
drowsspa on HNAt a first Glance, SuperSet seems a bit limited compared to Grafana.
LunaSea on HN
Requests
Support non-US company data
From 1 comment
This is very cool! Would be amazing if you could pass in data in a certain format (like the SEC data) from non-US companies as well and view/compare data in the same way.
arco1991 on HN
Make WordPress account creation optional
From 2 comments
Is there a way to register without it also creating a WordPress account?
jay3ss on HNThat sounds like a good use case. How making it optional?
jay3ss on HN
Questions
How often is the data updated
From 1 comment
How often is the database updated? For instance on stock price data can it be considered realtime (or 15 min lag) for daily market tracking? Not familiar with that SEC api.
muffles on HN
Where daily stock prices come from
From 1 comment
Where do you get daily stock prices data from?
las2k on HN
Alternatives named
Tableau
From 1 comment
I am not sure what you mean by 'trust it'? As in, does it display the data as it should? It is difficult to find free open source data visualization tools that can run in the…
tessbi on HN
Graphic Walker
From 1 comment
For a tableau open source alternative that runs in browser, you can try graphic-walker: https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker
loa_observer on HN
Grafana
From 1 comment
At a first Glance, SuperSet seems a bit limited compared to Grafana.
LunaSea on HN