Presented by Johan Fyhn from Bloomberg.

If you are using or are planning to use the Bloomberg terminal to download data this BQL seminar will be very useful in making sure you do this efficiently.

Johan Fyhn's (Bloomberg) introduction to BQL provides information on using the Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) to retrieve data and perform analysis in Excel. BQL is a new API based on normalized, curated, point-in-time data. Using BQL, you can perform custom calculations directly in the Bloomberg Cloud. Analyses that previously required you to download thousands of data points and perform complicated Excel manipulation now require only one formula. You just specify the data you want and the calculation you want to perform—including, but not limited to, arithmetic and statistical operations, filtering, grouping, scoring, and dates-based analysis—so you can synthesize large amounts of data and extract the exact information you need.