Data, Thou Art

the FrED chart

Bleedin' Nos.

These images, created at The St. Louis Federal Reserve's FRED, exist somewhere between data and art.



I'll be able to massage these lines into more numerically informative relationships once I start playing with the transformation capability that's been intelligently provided, but for now simple percentage differences from a year ago (fYA) will do.

	Series		GDP OIL Energ/Food/CPI Unemployed Cap.Util. Housing Starts	(Scale) Size		Period	ƒ(x)
1	GDP		Gross Domestic Product, 1 Decimal	2	Solid	Q	% Chg fYA
2	HOUST		Housing Starts: Total: New Privately Owned Housing Units Started	1	Solid	M	% Chg fYA
3	FF		Effective Federal Funds Rate	2	Solid	W (w)	%
4	MCUMFN		Cap Utilization: Manufacturing (NAICS)	2	Dashed	M	% of Cap
5	CPIUFDSL		Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food	2	Solid	M	% Chg fYA
6	CPIAUCSL		Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items	2	Solid	M	% Chg fYA
7	UNEMPLOY		Unemployed	1	Solid	M	% Chg fYA
8	OILPRICE		Spot Oil Price: West Texas Intermediate	1	Solid	M	$/brl
9	CPIENGSL		Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Energy	2	Solid	M	% Chg fYA