US Macroeconomic Data Explorer

Originally authored: 3 February 2020
Data last updated: 08 July 2023 - 01:15 UTC


The purpose of this project is to aggregate and disseminate publically available US macroeconomic data. Data APIs and web-scraping are used extensively.

All the results and plots presented in the pages below aim to be reproducible, referencing the primary-source data directly.

The following list contains automatically-updated interactive plots for each category. All content is generated by rendering the Jupyter notebooks into webpages. Automatic updates run once per week.

Charts

Retail Sales

Credit Cards

Service Sector

Agriculture: Dairy

Electricity

Oil and Gas

Automotives

Manufacturing

Seaports

Railroads

Trucking

Air & Waterway Freight

Construction

Labor

Real Estate Prices

Real Estate Sales

Trade

Sentiment

Stock Market

Bond Rates

Bond Auctions

Sources

Consumer Spending


Retail Sales Charts - aka "70%" of the US economy

Source: US Census Bureau / Monthly Retail Trade Report

Consumer Credit Card Charts

Sources:

Service Sector


Commercial Charts

Source: US Census Bureau / Quarterly Services Survey

Agriculture Sector


Dairy Charts

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Energy Sector


Electricty Charts

Source: US Energy Information Agency - Monthly Form EIA-861M

Oil and Gas Charts

Source: US Energy Information Agency - Petroleum supply, Natural Gas underground storage

Industrial Sector


Automotive Charts

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Manufacturing Charts

Source: US Census Bureau / Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Report

Transport Sector


Seaport Shipping Charts

Sources (accounting for >80% of US port volume):

Railroad Charts

Sources:

Trucking Charts

Source: CASS Transportation Indexes

Air Freight & Waterway Charts

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation - Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Commercial Sector


Construction Charts

Source: US Census Bureau / New Construction

Employment


Labor Market Charts

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics / Current Employment Statistics

Real Estate


Residential Price Charts

Source: Case/Shiller Home Price Index

Residential Listings and Sales Charts

Source: Zillow Research Data

International Trade


Census International Trade Charts

Source: US Census Bureau Foreign Trade

Sentiment


OECD Confidence Index Charts

Sources:

Stock Market


Historical Performance Charts

Sources:

Monetary Policy


Treasury Interest Rate Charts

Source: US Treasury Daily Treasury Long Term Rate Data

Treasury Auction Charts

Source: Treasury Direct Security Web API

Federal Reserve Repo Operations (NYI)

Credit Markets (WIP)


Commercial Credit Charts

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - FRED



Credits

The Jupyter notebook website template system used in this work was developed by Peter Carbonetto and Gao Wang at the University of Chicago.


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