Posts about time-series

FRED is a database with time series data on economic indicators from a wide variety of sources. There is an API to access all of this data, and in this post I will go over a recent project where I needed to collect all of it.

Time series data is all the rage these days, and not just in fields like finance. In this post we will look at working with time series data in Pandas, how to do basic time-based manipulations and calculations such as rolling means and data shifting.