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Resource for company relationship

5 messages · Anshul Pandey, Brian G. Peterson, Ilya Kipnis +1 more

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Hello folks,

Is there an open source resource (or an R package) to get company
relationships, such as competition, supplier etc?
Hoover seems to provide this information.

What is the best approach to create a custom mapping?

Thanks
Anshul
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I can't speak to an open source for the *data*, but the 
FinancialInstrument package (on R-Forge) is extensible as to what 
attributes you choose to store, and can create hierarchies of any 
attributes that you apply to instruments.

Otherwise, probably build a database for your reference data.

Regards,

Brian
On 01/29/2015 03:46 PM, Anshul Pandey wrote:
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I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list for this information (I
suppose it has a tangential use if one is willing to look for fundamental
information as well, or do company vs. company comparisons), but it seems a
different mailing list might be better suited. As far as I understand, your
best bet would be to find a website with this information and write a web
scraper.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Anshul Pandey <anshul.bits at gmail.com>
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Yes Ilya, I just realized that this is probably not the best place for this
question.
Sorry about that. I have already scraped wikipedia and historical news
articles, but I ended up mismatching quite a few entities.

@Brian: I will look into that for sure.

Thanks both of you.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Ilya Kipnis <ilya.kipnis at gmail.com> wrote:

            

  
  
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There used to be a company called Revere Data that had this information.
They were recently acquired by factset.

-H

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Anshul Pandey <anshul.bits at gmail.com>
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