Data solutions table

Closed / Expensive

ESG data are often proprietary and prohibitively costly and thus only only useful to the privileged few

Free and Open

• data access – via web or API
• community – anyone can join and contribute
• methodologies – includes derivatives
• -source software – available at GitHub

Messy

Companies produce abundant reports in PDFs, which can’t be queried or easily interpreted by machines, making it difficult to compare one company with another

Structured

WikiRate contributors are structuring data into standardized Metrics via scraping, API, and crowd research.

Isolated

Data silos, high-level ratings without sources, and low-level data without analysis combine to make ESG data almost impossible to navigate.

Interconnected

WikiRate brings together metrics from many different researchers and makes answers easy to navigate, interpret, improve and re-combine.

Dull

Often, reports are produced for a narrow audience of experts and are inscrutable to those unfamiliar with jargon.

Engaging

WikiRate will make data more digestible so that more people can engage and demand better metrics, better data, and better companies.