economics

US monthly economic time series (subset).

Each row is a month from 2008-01-01 to 2009-12-01. Columns:

• date (string "YYYY-MM-DD").
• pce (personal consumption expenditures, billions of dollars).
• pop (total population, thousands).
• psavert (personal savings rate, percent).
• uempmed (median duration of unemployment, weeks).
• unemploy (number of unemployed, thousands).

The bundled literal is stored in column-store form; plot accepts either column-store or row-store input and normalises internally.

Source: shape and column definitions follow the economics dataset bundled with the ggplot2 R package; see help("economics") in R. Original series come from the US Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), https://fred.stlouisfed.org/:

• pce: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE.
• pop: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POP.
• psavert: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT.
• uempmed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UEMPMED.
• unemploy: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNEMPLOY.

Usage

economics

Examples

Preview all 24 entries.

#let cols = economics.pairs()
#let cell(v) = if v == none { text(fill: gray, [_none_]) } else { [#v] }
#table(
  columns: cols.len(),
  align: center + horizon,
  inset: 5pt,
  stroke: 0.5pt,
  ..cols.map(p => strong(raw(p.at(0)))),
  ..range(cols.first().at(1).len()).map(i => cols.map(p => cell(p.at(1).at(i)))).flatten(),
)

Plot the unemployment series over time using date as a continuous date axis.

#plot(
  data: economics,
  mapping: aes(x: "date", y: "unemploy"),
  layers: (geom-line(stroke: 1pt),),
  scales: (scale-x-date(),),
  width: 11cm,
  height: 6cm,
)

Stack two layers with their own y mappings to compare two series on the same panel.

#plot(
  data: economics,
  mapping: aes(x: "date"),
  layers: (
    geom-line(mapping: aes(y: "psavert"), colour: rgb("#1b9e77"), stroke: 1pt),
    geom-line(mapping: aes(y: "uempmed"), colour: rgb("#d95f02"), stroke: 1pt),
  ),
  scales: (scale-x-date(),),
  labs: labs(y: "Percent / Weeks"),
  width: 11cm,
  height: 6cm,
)