On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
The NSE gives a pricelist at the end of each day for free, with weighted
average prices for the different counters.
The NSE has had a daily- and weekly- pricelist available for download for a number of years now. They're usually available as .xls files, though the URL has changed more than once.
I wrote a little bash script that has been silently collecting this data since October 2006, both the daily and weekly versions. I have the data just lying dormant since I haven't had the time to do anything meaningful with it.
@ Saidimu how many years are these?....that persistence can be valuable at some time!!!
If you want it, holla.... with a few conditions:
- Help me write a script that will extract the .xls data into CSV files (Apache Tika http://lucene.apache.org/tika/ is an excellent library for this, but anything else is welcome) - Let's put up the raw data, extracted data and extraction scripts somewhere so anyone can access it
I've been meaning to do basic machine-learning/natural-language-processing on the data, simply cuz it's interesting to be able to write a program that can automatically highly correlate share prices with events happening elsewhere (politics, weather, economic etc etc).
On Nellydata:
These folks are quite interesting. There is *zero* security on their data feeds, and *zero* terms of use. How do I know this? I wrote a script that has been collecting Nellydata from *public* websites... I have per-minute data since July 2008.
@ Saidimu ... since when again,wow!
If you want it, holla... conditions identical to NSE data. There are no terms-of-use on the Nellydata site I collect this from... infact, there are no terms of use on any of the publicy available sites that host Nellydata feeds. Very strange indeed.
Any takers?
Saidi
Super thread @ Aki It is quite an eye and mind opener! I really believe its a high time Kenya moves from its 3rd World status to something even better.With such scrutiny and real followup we will get somewhere. Nelly Data yes, is a great platform and for sure NSE ...(I salute their efforts) ...but should we limit our capabilities be it "competitiveness, flexibility,credibility or even security" just because we fall under this part of the sun!!! Jst study enterprises doing the same in developed countries and you will be surprised on how much information and effort they make in their lines.Why cant we match this or even have better... Let the debate go on, a CONSTRUCTIVE one for that matter. Chris_w. dabnix@gmail.com