July 2009
3 posts
auto-updated data feeds + data joining +...
Jason Y. whipped up a fascinating chart this afternoon that shows off the power of our new data feeds when combined with joined data and calculated variables.
He started with a data set of the monthly closing price of the S&P 500 Index. Then he joined that with another monthly data set of the 10-year Treasury yield. Then he created two new calculated variable series representing the monthly...
New auto-update capability for data on Verifiable!
Starting today, a number of our public data sets will be automatically updated from the source, as new data is published. Examples include the rich unemployment data sets from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Price Index data. We’ll be adding more all the time, each one tagged with “auto-updated” for easy search. If you want time series data that we...
New Feature: Custom Colors
One of our most requested features has been the ability to assign custom colors to chart variables.
Although our default color palate has been carefully chosen to allow the maximum number of distinct variables (a future blog post in and of itself), our assignments won’t always correspond to the specific colors naturally associated with certain data, or may not match your personal or...