National Accounts

By Maia Mindel (mmindel@alphacast.io) Read more Alphacast Highlights here In this hands-on guide, we will show you how to use Alphacast Pipelines to create coincident indeces and monitor key economic variables. What is a coincident index? A coincident index provides a gauge for the movement of a key economic variable through the use of related data series. In this case, the coincident investment index mirrors two of the two largest components of GDP, Private Consumption and Private Fixed Investment. Since both indeces have a certain complexity, the methodology will be shown separately, though there are major similarities between the two. How to make the Investment Index In this case, we will show you how to create the coincident investment index. The index is divided in sections, which are weighed in accordance with their relevance to the variable at hand, and estimated using the latest available data for each. Given that the index uses the Alphacast pipelines engine and data available on the platform's database, that means that the Index will be updated to reflect it as soon as the data is uploaded in the Alphacast site - in a completely automated manner. The first step is identifying the data series...

Stop spending your day copying & pasting data from sources that frequently change their formats, and get your charts updated right away. Dashboards are updated every day with the most recent data. Remember that you can copy and clone everything you see on those dashboards. Create your charts or pipelines to transform the data, and add your format, colors, and brand. Feel free to reuse everything of your own will. As a model for inspiration, we would like to share with you 8 curated dashboards from our team. Global Central Banks Dashboard Alphacast's Dashboards are the perfect tool to keep track of global monetary events. The Global Central Bank Dashboard has an up-to-date view of monetary policy in the Federal Reserve, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, and the People's Bank of China. Penn World Tables' Dashboard The Penn World Table, created by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, is a project to compare world macro data in the long term, on relative levels of income, output, input, and productivity, covering 183 countries between 1950 and 2019. Latin American Overview Dashboard Alphacast shines the most when combining data from dozens of sources that would otherwise require lots of work....