I have a BIG gift for Data hounds!
Jan 10, 2015 10:30:19 GMT -6
Mystic Wanderer, Doug, and 1 more like this
Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2015 10:30:19 GMT -6
Heya all! I'm a very exited bunny this morning. I don't expect everyone to share that over this news, because, quite frankly, you need to love and be into data/statistics (or be a news hound to the core) to appreciate this.
For those who are tho? This is the stuff wet dreams are produced from. I tell ya! (Yes..it is THAT NEAT!!!)
Some of you recall my Presidents Thread and most here probably recall my big Budget thread in 2012. The Presidents thread? I spent the better part of a week or two on. The Budget thread? I spent much more time with, to first read it all, then understand it, then rewrite it in ways to make sense for folks who didn't want to take that same time.
If I'd had THIS.....Both projects would have been reduced to a day..MAYBE two for 'research'. Most of it, couldn't even be called that...with THIS..
Hernandos? Meet FRED.
(You folks who hate the Fed with a passion bordering on dangerous....just bear with me here. They are one of the most accurate and powerful statistics keeping organizations in the world today, among their other less noble deeds)
Economic Research with Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
For those who are tho? This is the stuff wet dreams are produced from. I tell ya! (Yes..it is THAT NEAT!!!)
Some of you recall my Presidents Thread and most here probably recall my big Budget thread in 2012. The Presidents thread? I spent the better part of a week or two on. The Budget thread? I spent much more time with, to first read it all, then understand it, then rewrite it in ways to make sense for folks who didn't want to take that same time.
If I'd had THIS.....Both projects would have been reduced to a day..MAYBE two for 'research'. Most of it, couldn't even be called that...with THIS..
Hernandos? Meet FRED.
(You folks who hate the Fed with a passion bordering on dangerous....just bear with me here. They are one of the most accurate and powerful statistics keeping organizations in the world today, among their other less noble deeds)
You'll want to take a moment, to look into this a bit and see what I mean about the fact it DOES have almost everything for relevant data or numbers a news hound would want to find themselves in need of. Most numbers run from the 1960s or 70s to date, and turning part of a list into a chart is as simple as a couple clicks.
Wanna make a chart showing the debt levels during Bush, during Obama and taken together as 3 different charts OR different colored lines on the SAME chart to use in a debate? Well..it's not worth the effort if you have to MAKE a chart in excel, from scratch. 5 minutes isn't long...but 5 minutes is TOO long for a simple prop in a forum post. This will let you do either of those charts in under a minute with less than a dozen clicks. (It should be MUCH less).
(I'd love to do more for screenshots, but Excel isn't capable of keeping a drop down menu open if another screen is touched in any form...so I can't do that for ya here. Sorry)
You need two things to make use of the 'Encyclopedia Everythinginca' for federal and related statistics covering everything from Unemployment to the price index over the last 30 years for the price of a loaf of bread...or gas..or oil..or milk..or whatever else. All that is in there too, and as easy as 3 clicks to show the list of important numbers. You'll need MS Office Excel (2010 or 2013..it seems to work fine on both) and the link below.
This is like the Holy Grail for news hounds who use data regularly..I just can't say enough HOW valuable this is, after having spent more than one major effort to find each piece of information, one at a time.
Wanna make a chart showing the debt levels during Bush, during Obama and taken together as 3 different charts OR different colored lines on the SAME chart to use in a debate? Well..it's not worth the effort if you have to MAKE a chart in excel, from scratch. 5 minutes isn't long...but 5 minutes is TOO long for a simple prop in a forum post. This will let you do either of those charts in under a minute with less than a dozen clicks. (It should be MUCH less).
(I'd love to do more for screenshots, but Excel isn't capable of keeping a drop down menu open if another screen is touched in any form...so I can't do that for ya here. Sorry)
You need two things to make use of the 'Encyclopedia Everythinginca' for federal and related statistics covering everything from Unemployment to the price index over the last 30 years for the price of a loaf of bread...or gas..or oil..or milk..or whatever else. All that is in there too, and as easy as 3 clicks to show the list of important numbers. You'll need MS Office Excel (2010 or 2013..it seems to work fine on both) and the link below.
This is like the Holy Grail for news hounds who use data regularly..I just can't say enough HOW valuable this is, after having spent more than one major effort to find each piece of information, one at a time.
Economic Research with Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
