fred-processing

This repository has scripts for obtaining and processing some data from FRED. The main script is proc.py, which does tags fetching, series ID fetching, and the actual data gathering.

modify_sql.py modifies the output of proc.py by parsing each line and transforming it. This allows us to download the data from the API once, then transform it later. (It might have been better to download the data in a more "neutral" format like a TSV so that the parsing would have been simpler.)

To generate the SQL files, the scripts in this repository require the devec_sql_common Python package. To install, run:

git clone https://github.com/riceissa/devec_sql_common
cd devec_sql_common
pip3 install -e .

License

CC0

See also

• penn-world-table-data
• maddison-project-data
• world development indicators
• total-economy-database