US Macroeconomic Data Explorer¶
Originally authored: 3 February 2020
Data last updated: 08 July 2023 - 00:52 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
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Credit Cards
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Service Sector
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Agriculture: Dairy
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Electricity
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Oil and Gas
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Automotives
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Manufacturing
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Seaports
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Railroads
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Trucking
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Air & Waterway Freight
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Construction
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Labor
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Real Estate Prices
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Real Estate Sales
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Trade
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Sentiment
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Stock Market
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Bond Rates
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Bond Auctions
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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):
- Port of Los Angeles Historical TEU Statistics
- Port of Long Beach TEUs Archive
- Port of New York / New Jersey Monthly Cargo Volumes
- Georgia Ports Monthly TEU Throughput Report
- Port of Houston TEU Container Volume Report
- Northwest Seaport Alliance Cargo Statistics
- Port of Charleston Historical TEU Report
- Port of Virginia Historical Statistics
- Oakland Seaport Monthly Report
Railroad Charts¶
Sources:
- CSX Freight Reports
- Union Pacific Freight Reports
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Freight Reports
- Norfolk Southern Freight Reports
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.
© kdunn926