A Metric is a tool for measuring. On WikiRate, metrics are used to measure company performance, and they are a way of asking the same question of many companies. It consists of a question, an About section (which describes why this metric is important and how it is used), and a Methodology section (which describes how to research the answer).
Some metric answers are researched, and their values and source citations are entered directly. Other answers are dynamically calculated from other answers. Learn More
This example assumes you have configured your Wikirate REST client. Instructions on how to configure a client can be
found in examples/Configurations.md
The get_metric method take as an input either the metric name or the metric's identifier.
Each metric's name is composed by it's designer+title (eg. Core+Company Report Available).
# get a metric by name, returns a Metric object
metric = client.get_metric("Core+Company_Report_Available")
puts metric.question
puts metric.about
puts metric.methodology
# prints the metric type
puts metric.metric_type
# print the formula applied for the calculations if the metric is a Formula metric
puts metric.formula
# prints the metric as a json
puts metric.to_json
# prints the raw json response
puts metric.raw_json
# get a metric by id, returns a Metric object
metric = client.get_metric(7217)