I love this idea, this is really cool. I work on a joint data/business team and this would be useful for us. One piece of technical feedback: it would be good if you could press = and then use the arrow keys to select parts of your formula (like in excel). With quantus, I need to press =, and then switch to my mouse, and then click the cell (for example EBITDA), then press '/' on my keyboard, then go back to my mouse to select revenue, and then finally press equal, and then submit the assignment.
You should also make the tutorials/mini assignments slightly harder. Its really easy to calculate EBITDA margin when there are 2 lines on the page: revenue and EBITDA. It would be better if there were a few red herrings (like in a real financial statement/operating model). It would be even better if there were some harder stages where someone needs to first calculate EBITDA through the income statement, and then EBITDA margin.
Final piece of feedback: the various mini assignments in a module should all operate off of the same broader set of tabs/excel sheet. It would be rewarding to keep filling out more and more of the broader model, and also to have the context of the entire financial model available at any given time.
Happy to chat more. I would like to add something like this to my team's employee onboarding / training process.
A few more points of random feedback as I spend more time with it:
- In my wide monitor, the circle on the dark circle on the left that is supposed to be the background to the white descriptive text does not scale at the same rate as the text.. Which means that I can't read the right hand side of the text when opening the page wider than half of my screen (microsoft edge).
- Not a fan of the 3d birds on every page, sorry. If there needs to be birds, I prefer the birds on the homepage to the AI-generated looking ones on the /learn/module pages.
- Would be great to have 5+ LBO model building exercises for different business types/different formats.
- I don't know if this works in Google Sheets, but it would be good to have an exercise where people build a sensitivity table.
- An exercise where someone had to go to the investor relations website of a particular company, download a historical 10Q, seek out information from the income statement or balance sheet, and then calculate a metric or ratio would be excellent. (i.e,. something that brings you out of the context of Quantus/the in browser spreadsheet, but trains more on the actual action of seeking and using public filing data).
- I haven't been through everything, so you may already have it, but a double entry accounting exercise would be interesting. I find that people who haven't taken accounting courses in the past sometimes struggle with how the 3 statements fit together.
how would the pricing on databricks when using model serving compare to, say, the prices seen in the original post here (i.e., "3.3 70B is 25X cheaper than GPT4o")?
Good question and we have seen this extraction workflow a lot in financial services. We just added table mode to the product (select table in transformation parameters) where we extract table structure in the documents that match that schema. So 1 file map to N rows where N is all the row in the table.
You should also make the tutorials/mini assignments slightly harder. Its really easy to calculate EBITDA margin when there are 2 lines on the page: revenue and EBITDA. It would be better if there were a few red herrings (like in a real financial statement/operating model). It would be even better if there were some harder stages where someone needs to first calculate EBITDA through the income statement, and then EBITDA margin.
Final piece of feedback: the various mini assignments in a module should all operate off of the same broader set of tabs/excel sheet. It would be rewarding to keep filling out more and more of the broader model, and also to have the context of the entire financial model available at any given time.
Happy to chat more. I would like to add something like this to my team's employee onboarding / training process.