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kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
If there were canonical sports stats data sources to include, it wouldn't be difficult. Email us at info@kemvi.com if there's something specific you have in mind.
kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
You can't get a complete list the way it's currently set up. But SomeEntity.property(), without an argument, will give you a sample of them.
kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
Not yet, but drop us a line at info@kemvi.com.
kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
Coming soon, along with R and Javascript!
kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
Thanks, it's fixed -- that shouldn't have slipped through testing.
kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
Currently, it's great for socioeconomic data on countries, as well as for high-res socioeconomic data for the US (county resolution). There's data from the World Bank, Dept of Health, Dept of Labor, Dept of Justice, and several other public sources, with all entities reconciled.

We're building a pipeline to make it so that ETL involves as little human time as possible, but it's in its early stages now.

kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
It's highly interconnected. For example, you can make hops like USCounty--USState--Senator--Vote on economic stimulus bill.

The data backend is indeed NoSQL, but we didn't choose a graph db because there are no really good graph solutions that are easily parallelized.

kemvi··on Show HN: Semantic programmatic search for computable data
The idea is that you'd use this via the python shell (and soon, from your R code or Javascript code), and not through the website. Looks like we need to make that clearer. The website stack is Postgres+Django+Python.
kemvi··on Ask HN: Is this data startup idea viable?
I had heard of these guys, but hadn't seen their site in months. Sounds like they're doing something pretty similar, which is exciting, because it means they've tested the business model.
kemvi··on Ask HN: Is this data startup idea viable?
The freemium model is exactly what I was thinking. And, yes: Rapidminer, Weka, etc, are all on the desktop. Thanks for the motivation.
kemvi··on Ask HN: Is this data startup idea viable?
Great, thanks! I knew of timetric, mentioned below, but not about these. I suppose there's a strong selection bias.

The business model probably should be B2B: I imagine the users would be companies that need to do business intelligence, journalists, universities, and research organizations.