No. Never. SPAM and unsolicited marketing are pet peeves of the owners of Custom Visuals. We treat our client's contact information with the same privacy and respect we treat our own contact information.
Yes. We routinely process a variety of formats, including Bloomberg Per Security and Back Office files to Excel. Bloomberg has several formats that we've worked with over the years. If you have a large batch you'd like converted or wish to have data converted on a regular basis, let us know. We can also retrieve the data from Bloomberg for you, process it, and deliver both the original and reformatted data to you.
Please drop by our Contact page and either send us an email through the form or give us a call at the phone number at the top of that page and we'll contact you right away.
CSV, Excel, JSON, TSV (Tab Separated Values), PSV (Pipe Separated Values), Bloomberg Back Office and Per Security, HTML, XML, GRIB2, for starters. If you don't see your format listed, just ask. We can very likely process it with little effort. If you have something custom or proprietary, pass along the format specification and we'll discuss it with you.
CSV, Excel, JSON, TSV (Tab Separated Values), PSV (Pipe Separated Values), Bloomberg Back Office and Per Security, HTML, XML, GRIB2, SQL insert statements or bulk loads for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase ASE and IQ, etc. If you don't see your format listed, just ask. We can very likely create the output you need with little effort. If you have something custom or proprietary, pass along the format specification and we'll discuss it with you.
Our turnaround time mainly depends on the amount of data being processed and delays among vendor, client and our colocation networks. For some data, such as NYISO RT Zonal data which is typically under 1 KB, the turnaround time is a few seconds. For NOAA GFS data, which has nearly 1000 parameters in 500 MB per pair of files, turnaround time can be much longer. Note that we do use techniques to extract NOAA GFS data in much smaller subsets, so this can be reduced to a few seconds depending on the client's specific requirements.
If you'd like us to process a data set, please use our Contact page to let us know what you'd like. There is a phone number on the page if it's easier to communicate your needs to us via phone.
Yes, we host Websites. Generally speaking, we host Websites where we integrate some form of our automated processing.
Yes, we host Databases. Generally speaking, we host Databases where we integrate some form of our automated processing.
Our main financial data source is Yahoo! Finance.
Our main energy data sources are New York ISO (NYISO) and U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Our main weather data source is NOAA's Global Forecast System (GFS).
Our NOAA GFS data set covers the globe in 0.25 degree increments for nearly 1,000 parameters, forecast every 6 hours for 384 hours (16 days) in advance. You can request any location, region or the entire globe with as many parameters as needed.
Yes. We provide KML and KMZ files for geolocated data sets.
Yes. Custom Visuals began as a remote sensing and image processing company under the name of "Custom Data Visualizations" in 1995. The name was shortened to Custom Visuals in 2003. We've worked with a variety of satellite and airborne systems, and a number of custom formats over the years.