Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Bilby Quant API?
The Bilby Quant API serves an alternative data stream, designed to help quantify risk arising from political decisions in China. The quantitative signals it serves are algorithmically distilled from Bilby’s constantly-updated database of official policy documents. This structured data ranges back to 2017, and is updated several times per day. It includes measures of sentiment, political importance and policy development maturity.
Who will benefit from this API data, and how?
Anyone who needs a consistent, quantified signal capturing emerging policy risk. For example: Investors, government analysts and policymakers, or corporations with China exposure.
How do I get started?
- Click to sign up for an account.
- We will contact you via the email address you used to sign up.
- Please respond indicating your preferred pricing plan and payment method.
- We will authorize your account and confirm via email.
- You will then be able to create an API key and start accessing the data.
How much does it cost to subscribe to the API?
Please see our pricing page for more information.
What does the data look like?
Please check out our datasets page for information regarding the data that is available.
Where does your data come from, and how is it enriched? I want to know more!
The raw data comes from a range of sources, all publicly available:
- Official government sources
- Newspapers
- Reports from Ministries
- Documents from State-Owned Enterprises.
Bilby enriches the data with a machine learning pipeline that extracts the following information:
- Sentiment scores
- Scores indicating the importance of the document, based on the people or organizations that publish it
- Scores indicating the maturity of the document (How close the document is to be translated into official government policy)
- Please see our official data specification for more details.
How far does your data go?
The data goes back to the beginning of 2017.