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Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis

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I'm really having trouble understanding the value here. Is there something more to this company than line charts?

There's a lot of value in being a central storehouse for a LOT of data, in my opinion. Combine that with tools to easily do the comparisons (correlations, regressions, etc.) between different sets of data then adds a huge amount of value to a lot of people. Business/financial types in particular...

I admit to being biased, though; I know the founders and they're all really great and wicked smart guys. :)

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the Timetric team, though I don't recognise myself from Jed's description!)

There's also the API and the ability to build models which get updated when the underlying data's updated. Timetric is much more a time series database with visualization on the top than it's a visualization service which incidentally happens to be a data store.

If anyone out there needs a time series database backend for something they're building, get in touch with us: we'd love to talk with you.

I believe thats it - upload and share data.

I think the smarts comes in comparing multiple data sets, over time.

What would be cool is if you could give them a link to a data set online and they would take care of tracking it's changes over time. They could poll the data every day or hour and take care of the data storage and overhead involved with all that. Might add more value to the time-series graphs.

That'll be happening really soon - in fact, it works under the covers, and we're using it on some data (like http://timetric.com/series/DMrAf_pQRj6jeItUKxpXGQ/). It's just not in the UI yet. (You can import data from URLs already; it's the periodic updating we've not publicised.

(I'm one of the team behind Timetric.)

Cool, thanks. Looking forward to it.

Puzzled as to why they left out RSS from their supported data formats. Sure would be neat to be able to plug in an RSS feed and see how often it updates.

(Again, I'm one of the Timetric team.)

We've not so much left it out as not got round to it yet! Counting the number of entries - is that what you're after? - is a nice idea: we were thinking more of a series of values a-la RSS-CB (http://www.cbwiki.net/wiki/index.php/RSS-CBMain), but it sounds like they'd both be good things to do.

Yah. I mean, ideally what I want is to use it with Twitter. Let me plug in an RSS feed for a search term, and then see its frequency over time.

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