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 aren’t yet supporting, please let us know.
Best yet, preexisting visualizations incorporate this new data automatically. And in some cases, new old data—for example, we extended some of the unemployment data back to 1954.
In general we avoid modifying the appearance of existing visualizations whenever we add or change features, but in this case we made an exception since the additional data should be a major improvement. You also should’ve received an email from us warning you of any changes to your visualizations (please let us know if we missed you).
We encourage you all to log in and experiment with the latest data. And if you’d like to your visualization to show only a fixed period, you can simply add a filter restricting the dates you see, as before.
We hope you enjoy the new functionality. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
-Peter C., Verifiable.com
