We’ve recently added a lot of new data about companies that we extracted from the Securities and Exchange commission filings.
- 60,000 people who are directors or high-level employees at public companies
- Headquarters and industry codes for 7000 companies
- The complete NAICS tree of industries, with mappings to companies
- Revenues and income amounts for 5000 companies, as of their latest 10-K filings
- Approximate market capitalizations for 5000 companies, as of the end of 2007
This allows for lots of fun new queries, such as:
- Directors of $10M+ companies who have starred in movies
- CFOs of companies in SF with >$1M in revenue
- Prepackaged software companies that are losing money (with CEOs)
- Female CEOs of public companies in order of Market Cap
Click on any of the links then click Show this query in MQL to see how to write queries like these yourself.
We’re hoping to add more company data in the future, which will let us answer even more complicated questions.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Is there any way to get start/end dates on the employment history of the directors and executives? I’ve always wanted to be able to tie the board of a company I wanted to invest in back to their history with other companies as a way to judge their oversight.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This is fascinating. How difficult is it to import data like you find on the municipal bonds webpage (not mine)?
As you know, municipal bonds are a trillion dollar market and they are basically unregulated, except for some rules too many folks ignore.
I think the relationships of the munis being sold in communities by different states would parse themselves into displays similar to the on company data from the SEC. Now, based on published research in development, sociology, economics by many people in other areas, I would predict that those communities who score the highest on disparity measures would have munis that are most unstable and are more likely to default than those communities that have low disparity measures. Think about it for a moment and read “Super Cruncher” by Ian Ayers, and “Imperial America” by Amy Chu.
Now, given that I’m up to my eye teeth in projects, some that involve courts with deadlines that are not forgiving, does anyone have an estimate of time to import data sets and to create the graphs like the one above?
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April 16th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Data-Visualization: Visualizing Corporate America
Based on data from the SEC for 60,000 directors or high-level employees, Toby Segaran created this graphical network of major US companies that share board members or CEOs. A bit like a social network graph for companies.
Besides the relationship betw…
May 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
CorpWatch recently won the NetSquared Mashup Challenge to create a visualization that would use SEC data in a similar way. We are looking at tracking parent company and subsidiary relationships in a way that would allow regular people to understand how corporate ownership works on a large scale. It would be great to combine these efforts, take a look at our proposal:
http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference/projects/corpwatch-government-data-corporations
May 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Crocodyl, rather :)