Data & Python
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IMF forecasts 3.2% US inflation rate in 2026
The April 2026 IMF World Economic Outlook is out. Headline forecasts for 2026:
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Matching CPS Observations to Create Crosswalks
Occupation data in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) can be very useful, particularly during a shake-up in labor markets. The e...
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US Chartbook version 0.1
Check out the US Chartbook, version 0.1, released today. The chartbook is a big PDF collection of notes on US economic and social indicat...
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bd CPS version 0.4 released
Version 0.4 of my notebooks for cleaning up and working with Current Population Survey public use microdata is available on GitHub. Sever...
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Choropleth with matplotlib and basemap
When I was using excel to make all of my graphs, the choropleth map was out of reach and particularly alluring. Later, using Stata, I fig...
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bd CPS version 0.3 released
Version 0.3 of my notebooks for cleaning up and working with Current Population Survey public use microdata is available on GitHub. Sever...
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Do regional inflation differences affect nationwide real wage estimates?
Some basic facts about the US economy point to the possibility that inflation is overstated in measures of real wage growth for workers a...
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bd CPS version 0.2 released
Version 0.2 of my personal Current Population Survey partial extract code and documentation is uploaded to GitHub. A few new variables we...
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Economist as a plumber with a body camera (EPBC)
Economists could do more to show their work and to maintain their results.
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Using APIs to get economic data with Python — list of Jupyter notebooks
I’ve cleaned up jupyter notebook examples of using data providers’ APIs to request data using python. Each notebook works through at leas...
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Where Did IFS Go? Accessing IMF Data After the 2025 API Restructuring
Update (2025): The IMF reorganized International Financial Statistics (IFS) data into topic-specific datasets. This post explains the cha...
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Global trade network analysis with Python: central players in bluefin tuna and large aircraft
Network analysis provides useful insights into complex bilateral trade data. Two methods are presented for calculating with Python each c...