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If you want to analyse upfront how much news coverage your universe of companies receives under your current data packages, reviewing the volume of documents available over the last month, 6 months, and 12 months helps you decide whether those packages are the right fit for your portfolio, and informs how you design queries in the Search Service to extract the most relevant insights. You can review your current data packages, and explore others that you can unlock, in the Bigdata Store. The script below leverages the Volume endpoint, which returns the unique number of documents and unique number of chunks matching a query over a given period. It sets an Entity filter and issues one call per company for the defined window.

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Coverage analysis

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Resolve companies

The script takes as input the file of RavenPack IDs produced by the Resolve companies script, so make sure you have resolved your universe before running it.
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Run the script

Clone the public repository and follow the instructions in its README.md to run the script.

How-to scripts: company news coverage

Ready-to-run scripts that measure news coverage across your universe of companies over the last month, 6 months, and 12 months.
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Import as Excel

The output file is in CSV format, and you can import it into an Excel by opening a new document, clicking on Data, and selecting “From Text/CSV”.How to import CSV in ExcelThis is an example that only shows the columns of distinct documents in the last month, 6 months and 12 months.Company news coverage example