> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bigdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

Welcome to Bigdata Cookbooks, a collection of practical, hands-on guides that show you how to turn data into insights and applications.

Cookbooks are more than just code snippets. They're ready-to-use recipes that show you how to combine our API endpoints, workflows, and best practices to accomplish specific tasks.

Whether you're building an AI assistant, analyzing financial markets, or powering a business intelligence dashboard, these step-by-step guides will help you get there faster.

## What You'll Find Inside

#### Getting Started Recipes

Learn the fundamentals with step-by-step examples on how to build [Search Services](/use-cases/search-service/build_your_first_rag), [Thematic Screening Tools](/use-cases/research-tools/screeners), and more.

#### Core Techniques

Go deeper with guides like [Build Your First RAG](/use-cases/search-service/build_your_first_rag), [Similarity Search Demystified](/use-cases/search-service/similarity_search_demystified), [Search with Re-Ranking](/use-cases/search-service/supercharge_your_search_relevance), [Global All-Cap Screening in One Batch Job](/use-cases/search-service/one_job_for_thousands_of_companies), and [Smart Batching for Universe-Scale Search](/use-cases/search-service/smart-batching) — designed to help you optimize performance and scalability.

#### Use Cases

Explore use cases for business and finance, including:

* [Conversational AI](#conversational-ai)
* [Search & Discovery](#search-and-discovery)
* [Market & Financial Analysis](#market-and-financial-analysis)
* [Risk Management](#risk-management)
* [Screening & Monitoring](#screening-and-monitoring)
* [Insights & Reporting](#insights-and-reporting)

## Who It's For

Cookbooks are designed for developers, data scientists, and analysts who want working solutions, not just references. They serve as a bridge between the API Reference (the technical details) and real-world outcomes (ready-to-run applications).

If the [SDK Reference](/sdk-reference/introduction) is your toolbox, think of Cookbooks as your blueprints, showing you how to build powerful applications on top of Bigdata.com.

## Share Your Journey

Building with Bigdata? We'd love to collaborate with you on your ideas! All cookbook code is available in our [public GitHub repository](https://github.com/Bigdata-com/bigdata-cookbook), where you can explore ready-to-use notebooks, share modifications, and contribute your innovative approaches. Whether you're adapting existing recipes or creating entirely new ones, we're excited to see your creative solutions and work together to advance financial analysis at scale.

## Conversational AI

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  <Card title="Research Widget" icon="message" horizontal="True" href="https://docs.bigdata.com/widgets/chatbox-widget">
    Integrate a chat widget into your applications for seamless research interactions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Build Your Own MCP" icon="wrench" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/build-your-own-mcp">
    Create custom MCP servers to integrate Bigdata Research Tools with your preferred AI clients.
  </Card>
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## Search and Discovery

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  <Card title="Build Your First RAG" icon="newspaper" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/search-service/build_your_first_rag">
    Build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation solution with Bigdata.com
  </Card>

  <Card title="Similarity Search Demystified" icon="magnifying-glass" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/search-service/similarity_search_demystified">
    Understand and implement similarity search for better content discovery.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Search with Re-Ranking" icon="arrows-up-down" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/search-service/supercharge_your_search_relevance">
    Enhance search relevance with advanced re-ranking techniques.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Global All-Cap Screening in One Batch Job" icon="bolt" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/search-service/one_job_for_thousands_of_companies">
    Explore the Global All-Cap universe in a single batch job, one upload, one download, no client-side rate limiting.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Smart Batching for Universe-Scale Search" icon="layer-group" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/search-service/smart-batching">
    Plan and execute large-universe Search workflows with adaptive batching, proportional sampling, and reusable search plans.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Market and Financial Analysis

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  <Card title="Pricing Power Analysis" icon="chart-line" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/pricing-power">
    Analyze competitive positioning and pricing advantages by tracking sentiment patterns in news coverage across company watchlists.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Liquid Cooling Market Watch" icon="droplet" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/liquid-cooling">
    Identify liquid cooling technology providers and adopters while tracking volume trends of news coverage for each company over time.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="AI Cost Cutting Analysis" icon="scissors" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/ai-cost-cutting">
    Identify AI cost cutting solution providers and users while tracking technology relationships across industries.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI Revenue Generation Analysis" icon="dollar-sign" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/ai-revenue-generation">
    Identify AI revenue generation solution providers and users while mapping technology ecosystem relationships across companies.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Tracking Inflation Drivers" icon="arrow-trend-up" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/tracking-inflation-drivers">
    Generate comprehensive US inflation reports by analyzing economic drivers and categorizing inflationary pressures across news coverage.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Election Monitoring" icon="microphone" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/election-monitor">
    Analyze corporate executive positioning on elections by detecting positive and negative impacts across executive transcripts.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Crypto Institutional Adoption" icon="coins" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/screener-for-crypto">
    Assess crypto exposure to institutional adoption trends using premium sources and thematic screening methodology adapted for digital assets.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Risk Management

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  <Card title="Risk Analyzer" icon="shield" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/risk-analyzer">
    Quantify corporate vulnerability to geopolitical and economic threats by extracting risk signals from diverse financial documents and news.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deploy Your Risk Analyzer" icon="docker" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/docker-services/risk-analyzer">
    Learn how to run your own financial risk analyzer service with a pre-built Docker image and the Bigdata API.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="AI Threat Assessment" icon="brain-circuit" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/report-ai-threats">
    Assess corporate resilience to AI disruption by measuring both vulnerability risks and strategic adoption initiatives across multiple data sources.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Regulation Risks" icon="clipboard" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/report-regulatory-issues">
    Evaluate regulatory exposure and compliance strategies across tech companies using automated risk scoring from filings, transcripts, and news.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="US Tariffs: Risks & Strategies" icon="scale-balanced" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/specialized-report-tariffs">
    Automated analysis of trade tariff risks and corporate mitigation strategies using AI-powered risk taxonomies and multi-source content analysis.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Rising Bond Spread Risks" icon="chart-mixed" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/rising-bond-spread-risks">
    Analyze sovereign exposure to bond market spillover effects across Western Europe using risk taxonomies and sentiment analysis of financial news.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Screening and Monitoring

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  <Card title="Thematic Screeners" icon="bullseye" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/screeners">
    Systematically connect companies to investment themes using AI-powered analysis of earnings call transcripts.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deploy Your Thematic Screener" icon="docker" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/docker-services/thematic-screener">
    Learn how to run your own thematic screening service with a pre-built Docker image and the Bigdata API.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Credit Ratings Monitoring" icon="chart-bar" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/credit-ratings-monitor">
    Detect and analyze credit rating events across your portfolio with structured timelines, outlook tracking, and exportable datasets.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Board Management Monitoring" icon="user-group" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/board-management-monitoring">
    Monitor specific executives and board members across news coverage using entity tracking to analyze management exposure and media mention patterns.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Self-Updating Thematic Dashboards with MCP" icon="chart-line" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/self-updating-research-dashboard">
    Ship grounded, self-updating thematic dashboards from Remote MCP (search, market and country tearsheets) with citations baked into the data layer.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Insights and Reporting

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  <Card title="Brief Generation" icon="box-archive" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/docker-services/briefs">
    Learn how to run your own financial brief generation service for your watchlist with a pre-built Docker image and the Bigdata API.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Daily Digests" icon="calendar" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/daily-digests-introduction">
    Automated daily digest generation across various market topics and themes.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Central Bank Announcements" icon="landmark" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/daily-digest-central-banks">
    Monitor central bank communications and policy announcements with automated analysis of market impact.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Crude Oil Market Trend Analysis" icon="oil-well" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/daily-digest-crude-oil">
    Transform crude oil market news into structured daily digests with automated topic clustering, impact scoring, and professional HTML reports.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Card title="Narrative Miners" icon="timeline" horizontal="True" href="/use-cases/research-tools/miners">
    Track the "AI Bubble Concerns" narrative as it emerges and evolves across news, earnings calls, and regulatory filings.
  </Card>
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