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Without WikiRate
With WikiRate
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.
Without WikiRate
With WikiRate
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.