macroecon-tools 1.0.5

Suite of tools for macroeconomics analysis

Macroecon-Tools

A open-source set of tools to assist with macroeconomic work. The package includes two classes, Timeseries and TimeseriesTable, for working with time series data and collections of time series. The package is built on pandas and numpy to offer additional metadata and advanced operations tailored for macroeconomic analysis of time series.

---

Modules

• timeseries: Contains the datastructures extended from pd.Series and pd.DataFrame.
  • Timeseries: A class that extends pd.Series to include metadata and additional methods.
  • TimeseriesTable: A class that extends a dictionary and includes functionality from pd.DataFrame.
• fetch_data: Contains functions to fetch data from the internet.
  • get_fred: Fetches data from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API.
  • get_barnichon: Fetches and parses data from the Barnichon dataset.
  • get_ludvigson: Fetches and parses data from the Ludvigson dataset.
• visualizer: Contains functions to visualize time series data.
  • vis_multi_series: Visualizes multiple time series on the same plot.

Installation

To install the package, run the following command in the terminal:

pip install macroecon-tools

---

Timeseries Module

Timeseries Class

The Timeseries class extends the pd.Series class to include metadata and additional methods. The class is initialized with a pd.Series object and additional metadata. The metadata includes the following:

• name: The name of the time series.