Why another database for macroeconomic data?

• Machine-readable datafeeds for economic data are growing (FRED, quandl, OECD, World Bank, EIA). Please take a minute to fill our poll about economics datasources and see the results.

• However, some data is still left in the dark. Russian macroeconomic statistics seems very fragmented (HTML, Word, Excel are common dessimination formats). This is a roadblock to reproducible analysis as dirty data escalates costs of model maintenance.

• mini-kep aims to remove this roadblock by providing public API for Russian macroeconomic data and examples of economic research/business planning/marketing problems solved in python pandas or R.

User case

We assume an end user has some experience with data from FRED or quandl.

The user wants:

• a clean dataset with latest data from different sources
• browse what data is available
• read this data on a local machine:
  • as pd.DataFrame
  • as R dataframe
• quickly draw some charts like one below:

More on user case here.

Read next

• Specification pages
• Development notes
• Changelog
• New user checklist