Visualizing oil prices This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “The relationship among oil prices, food costs, and consumer inflation” uses data from the … Continue reading
Visualizing the CPI basket This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “The differences among price indexes” uses data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor … Continue reading
Visualizing poverty rates This assignment provides instructions on building the map below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Single-parent poverty: Census data on household income” uses data from the U.S. Census to … Continue reading
Visualizing worldwide GDP growth rates This assignment provides instructions on building the map below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “International comovement in economic indicators” uses data from Eurostat and the International Monetary … Continue reading
Visualize the federal funds rate This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Rates related to monetary policy” uses data from the Board of Governors … Continue reading
Visualizing the unemployment rate This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Why does women’s employment change with the seasons? An answer from the NBER” … Continue reading
Visualizing consumer price inflation This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the year-over-year growth rate in the consumer price index. From the FRED Blog The post “Egg price deflation and fresh chicken … Continue reading
Visualizing GDP’s growth rate This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the compounded annual rate of change in gross domestic product. From the FRED Blog The post “Real GDP growth by state: … Continue reading
Visualizing home prices This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Home prices in the United States” discusses how affordable homes have been for the typical … Continue reading
Visualizing labor market tightness This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Measuring labor market tightness with FRED” discusses how to combine two data series from … Continue reading