Beyond Intuition, Mastering Data: X-Ray’s Seamless Data Decision Flow
Decisions based on intuition rely on incomplete or misleading information, where emotions, “sixth sense”, and intuition often play the dominant role. Despite sounding unreliable, regrettably, this is the decision-making approach many mainstream businesses currently employ. The correctness of intuitive decisions heavily depends on the decision-maker’s skills and luck, introducing a high degree of uncertainty.
However, the next stage beyond intuitive decision-making is data-driven decision-making, which will ultimately evolve into intelligent decision-making. Compared to intuitive decision-making, data-driven decision-making offers unparalleled consistency, stability, and accuracy, giving businesses a significant competitive advantage.
X-Ray provides a comprehensive solution to enable businesses to make data-driven decisions. It covers more than just isolated links, and transcends any single component required to complete a full solution. The X-Ray system creates continuous value through data collection, model building, decision-making, results evaluation, and feedback adjustment throughout the process. If data are seen as raw materials and decision outputs as products, then the X-Ray system is the expert that masters the entire process, from raw material acquisition, production processing to result evaluation and feedback. It turns the coincidences of intuition into the inevitabilities of data.
Transforming Challenges into Potential: XDK Brings a Barren Data World to Life
One of the unique aspects of the X-Ray is its remarkable environmental adaptability. Despite its superior ability in automated data management, it does not neglect adaptability and resilience in harsh data and demanding system environments.
The common concept is to view mature ERP-like business execution systems as the foundation for conducting data analysis. This view originates from the notion that without these systems, the data collection process becomes difficult, monotonous, and incapable of continuously producing high-quality data in an automated way. And without an ongoing flow of high-quality data, we cannot build decision-making models of great value.
However, the XDK (Data Collection Toolkit) from X-Ray acts like glue, fundamentally breaking the dependence on flawless business execution systems. XDK provides SDKs based on various languages like Python, C++, Java, Ruby, etc. With it, X-Ray can effortlessly gather data from various data sources, such as backend databases, data warehouses, web interfaces, text files, and numerous Excel-based business ledgers and summary tables.
This unmatched adaptability in data collection makes data that originally dispersed like smoke become tangible, gathering like small streams that eventually form a vast ocean, building a sustainable data ecosystem. Within such a vibrant data ecosystem, we can easily cultivate models with enduring vitality. This lets the X-Ray transform a data desert into a lively oasis.
Four Key Mechanisms Ensuring Data Quality and Enabling Automated Operation
X-Ray ensures the accuracy and freshness of data through four unique mechanisms, effectively eliminating the dependence on manual reconciliation and maintaining high-quality data over a long term.
1. Self-verification mechanism: The correctness of data is crucial, so we have fully considered self-verification in the system design. Whether it’s simple table collection or complex index calculation, we have set up automatic comparison and verification processes to ensure the data is accurate.
2. Online calculation mechanism: We ensure real-time updates of data, i.e., as input data changes, relevant results are immediately refreshed. In this way, the data always stays up-to-date, and any errors can be discovered and corrected immediately.
3. Unattended operation mechanism: The X-Ray system runs fully automatically, without the need for human intervention. We have established an automatic warning mechanism. If there are errors in the data or data is missing, the system will send out an alert immediately.
4. End-of-day job mechanism: We have set up daily checkpoints to ensure that all data for the day is accurate and complete, ensuring that erroneous data does not accumulate to the next day.
Beyond Excel: Experience X-Sheet, Your New Data Report Tool
Through our X-Ray, you will experience a completely new way of generating data reports. We provide you with ‘X-Sheet’, a web-based spreadsheet embedded in the browser that revolutionizes the traditional report generation process in unique ways.
1. Guaranteed data quality: In ‘X-Sheet’, you don’t need to update or check the correctness of data yourself. Our system automatically provides the latest, most accurate data, like a never-ending supply of fresh ingredients in a kitchen, you only need to enjoy the process of cooking up a data feast.
2. Ease of operation, lower requirements: Whether it’s accessing data or generating reports, everything becomes so easy in ‘X-Sheet’. Simple configuration operations can meet your needs for statistical tables and summary tables without the need for cumbersome data operations.
3. Rich template selection to meet needs: In ‘X-Sheet’, we provide a variety of report templates for you to choose from. No matter how complex and diverse your data needs are, you can find a suitable report template.
4. Automatic archiving and updating: ‘X-Sheet’ will automatically update and archive your data and reports for you. This means that every time you view a report, it is based on the latest, most comprehensive data, without the need to manually update data or regenerate reports.
Compared to traditional Excel, ‘X-Sheet’ maintains its familiar interface while significantly upgrading its capabilities. ‘X-Sheet’ is part of the X-Ray system, integrating data acquisition, processing, and presentation, providing unparalleled convenience for your data work.
With ‘X-Sheet’, let’s rise above Excel in the world of X-Ray and enjoy a zero-burden experience of one-click report generation.
Feynman Language: Deep Data Insights, Cross-Disciplinary Visual Representation
X-Ray brings you a completely new programming language: the Feynman Language. This language, designed specifically for handling time series data, not only offers powerful capabilities, but also exhibits extreme adaptability and flexibility.
The Feynman Language is an interpreted language that is quick to modify and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). Its main use is to read completed index data and raw data from X-Ray’s data set in chronological order and perform light processing.
We summarize its advantages into the following four features:
1.The magic brush for data visualization: With the Feynman Language, you can customize a variety of common chart types, such as line charts, pie charts, area charts, scatter plots, radar charts, etc., allowing complex data sets to be presented in a very intuitive and vivid manner. It builds a bridge between visuals and numbers, bringing the story of the data to life in a compelling visual form in front of you.
2. WYSIWYG programming experience: The Feynman Language is an interpreted language, which means you can test while writing and quickly modify to ensure code correctness.
3. Rich basic computation library: It supports all common mathematical and logical operations, allowing you to perform fine data processing. Reading completed index data and raw data from X-Ray’s data set, you can generate a “temporary” index through a variety of computation functions for a deeper understanding of the data.
4. Flexible embedding, display anywhere: The Feynman Language is not only powerful, but also very flexible. You can embed the code you’ve written anywhere in the system to achieve dynamic data presentation, providing real-time, accurate data feedback.
By using the Feynman Language, you can bring data to life, let them present in the way you want, and unlock the endless possibilities of data.
X-BT (Backtesting Framework): Embark on a Journey of Data Mining, Polishing, and Refining
X-Ray offers a powerful backtesting framework: X-BT. It provides a full IDE environment that runs and debugs directly in VSCode, making it very easy for you to build your own testing and development environment. Plus, you can utilize our extensive public input database to perform high-speed calculations in Python3, creating an indicator calculator that allows for multi-host concurrent calculations, and effortlessly use this framework to create indicator kernels and models that meet your needs.
These new indicators and model results can not only be used by X-Sheet and Feynman Language for visualization, but also serve as basic data for further research. What’s more important, you can DIY expand your own dataset through this framework and keep it updated continuously.
Imagine that the world of X-Ray is like a mine full of unknown data, and X-BT is your mining tool that can help you transform rough ore into shining gems. Let’s delve into this mysterious mine together:
1. Data transformation: Like miners chiseling away at rocks, X-BT efficiently and accurately processes raw data, refining valuable information from rough ore.
2. Stones of Time: Each piece of data is like a gem embedded with the imprint of time, carrying an ID, sampling period, and timestamp, allowing you to trace their origin and evolution in the river of time.
3. Mirror of History: X-BT’s backtesting capability is like a mirror of history. Through complex computations and precise sampling of the input data set, you can see the cut marks and radiance of each data gem.
4. Exclusive Mining Tools: We’ve prepared a complete VSCode development and debugging environment for you, like a miner’s professional tools, which can mine, cut, and polish your data gems without barriers.
5. Boundless Gem Factory: No matter where your ore comes from, you can easily process it in X-BT. As long as you package it into the appropriate shape with our tools, you can start your polishing journey.
6. Gem Store: We also provide you with a rich paid data set gem shop. No matter what kind of gem you want, you can find it here. These high-quality data gems will make your analysis and decisions shimmer like rainbows.
7. Continuous Mining and Polishing: You can use X-BT to continuously expand your gem library, whether it’s for visualization or as basic data for further research, you can find the right ore.
X-BT is your exclusive mine, polishing and refining assembly line, and a gem processing factory of your own. Here, every swing of your hammer may bring new discoveries, and every gem hides endless value. Through continuous mining and polishing of the raw stones in the mine, you will own your own gems. Utilizing these gems, you will undoubtedly assemble more valuable high-level data tools, sparking greater productivity.
