Working with FRB Economic Data (FRED)

America's central bank FRB (Federal Reserve Bank) has a website called FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) which hosts more than 800,000 US and international economic time series data such as inflation, oil price, GDP, interest rates, etc.

And, you can easily get the data in Exploratory by using one of the supported data sources 'FRED'.

In this seminar, Kan will show you how you can start, get the data from FRED, and work with the data to effectively visualize and analyze the data with a few data wrangling and visualization tips

Agenda:

• Initial Setup
• Download Data with UI
• Bulk Download Data with R Script
• Filter with Date / Time
• Merge Multiple Data Sets
• Window Calculation
• Add Colors to Metrics

Reference:

• Introduction to Time Series Forecasting with Prophet - Link
• How to Merge Multiple Data Frames - Link
• Spread - Transform Long Data to Wide Data - Link

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