Alphacast Quick Tips

By Francisco Fernandez More Alphacast Highlights available at this link The Argentine economy has a significant part of its production, employment, and consumption destined to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). To understand their economic and financial situation, especially considering the scarcity of relevant high frequency official statistics, it is possible to use data on their financing. For this special segment of the economy, ECHEQs are fundamental - and Alphacast has a real-time updated Stock Market dataset of them, discriminating by maturity, asset type, and currency. The complexity of the dataset, in addition to the amount of data and variables available, makes it crucial to know how to process and analyze them. Therefore, in this hands-on guide, we will show how to filter the data, transform them, and present them graphically for their best use. For this, we will use the Alphacast pipeline engine to transform and plot data from guaranteed ECHEQs. Since the source is available in our database, the information is updated regularly and automatically, as soon as it is made public - both in the original dataset and in all uses. Step by step First, we start by creating a pipeline. This is simple: select "create new", then...

From a Dataset First of all, filter the information you want to use. Excel and Google Sheet limit the information that can be downloaded to a maximum, so it is convenient to apply the filters you need. Once you've done the filter, click on the Download button. Then select the format you want: TSV (for integrations with Excel for Mac), CSV, or Excel and choose Copy Link. You will notice the URL already has your personal API key (which should not be shared publicly with other users, outside your team). From a Pipeline Within any pipeline, you can create a Data Snapshot to get a Download Link for the data up to that point. Use the XLSX Download link and follow Step 2. Step 2. Integrating to Excel or Google Sheets Excel Now go to Excel, select Get Data > From Other Sources > From Web, and enter the URL you copied from the Alphacast website. The following GIF guides you through a successful Excel integration! Google Sheets It is VERY easy to connect any Alphacast dataset to Google Sheets and leave it connected to update itself. In Google Sheets type =IMPORTDATA() and paste the URL (the one copied earlier)...

In the dataset, click on the Download button. Select the TSV format and choose Copy Link Alternatively, you can use the Data Snapshot link from any pipeline. Remember to choose the TSV link. Step 2. Integrating with Excel Open Excel on your Mac, go to the Data tab in the top menu bar. Click on Get Data (Power Query) and Select Get Data (Power Query) from the dropdown menu. Choose data source: Blank query from the options In the Connect to the data source tab, you need to paste the dataset URL and then run the following query. After that, press Next to visualize the table. Csv.Document(Web.Contents("CSV link")) Finally, set up your table by selecting the first row as headers. Step 3. There is no step 3....