Finding specific time series Selecting database view Country & Region Special nodes Source & Release Concept & Category Searching & filtering Importance of data (the red exclamation mark) Data-tree search bar Data-tree filter How to filter? Creating a filter Setting the default filter Clear your filter Shortcuts to data Organizing results Tabs Levels Structured view/Flat … Continue reading “Browsing data-tree”
Some sources show missing values as ‘0’, ‘ – ‘ or ‘n/a’. We always check what each source use for particular data set and unify all those variables into one system. We have two types of missing data in our database: N/A – there should be a value in this point in time but for … Continue reading “Missing values and N/As”
Class of series What Stock, Flow and steps mean? Annual Rate (AR) and Aggregate series as Stock Can I choose class of series? Can I change class of series? Changing from Flow to Stock (how to decumulate series?) Annual Rate (AR) Prices How to change Current to Constant? (inflation adjusted series) How to change Constant … Continue reading “Class, AR & Prices”
What happens when series is being discontinued? In our database Files saved on Personal/Department/Company Account How to find discontinued series? Add superseded in Browse tab Data-tree node Search tab results Yellow bar – information and replacing old series How to connect old series with new one? When the source discontinues its time series, we also … Continue reading “Discontinued series”
Overview Filters vs Quick filters Filters Types Predefined & saved Filters Filter list Filter sets How to use Filters? Include, Exclude, Not any & Disable By metadata from a series Quick filters How to use Quick filters? Organizing the results Overview Filters will help to speed up the process of finding the data you want … Continue reading “Using filters”
Browsing in Analytics tab How it works? Features for navigating data Search tab in Analytics tab Release tab This article will introduce you to the fundamentals of finding data in the application. We’ll take a look at the different activities you can use to find data: Browse, Search and Releases tabs. Browsing in Analytics tab … Continue reading “Finding data – overview”
How to access metadata? What can I find there? Time series Source Release Concept Disappearing metadata Each series has its own metadata containing information about source, frequency, unit, class, currency, inflation adjustment, additional comments, methodology, release dates etc. You can quickly access it from anywhere in the application. How to access metadata? Regardless of which … Continue reading “Time series information – accessing the metadata”
What is Actions ribbon? How are Actions organized? Browse Add to documents Presentation / Dynamic table 12 last observations / Transformations Locate series in tree Releases Search Each Activity tab is like a workspace, with tools and features suited to particular types of tasks. For example, browsing data, or performing analyses. So, what happens if … Continue reading “Working with Actions ribbon”
Macrobond Proprietary Datasets National & International Datasets Third Party Datasets Vintage data Datasets in Chinese The Data you access via Macrobond is either part of the core package, or from our commercial add-on databases. The former is a comprehensive foundation of data that comes with the application, the latter is a selection of commercial databases … Continue reading “Databases in Macrobond”
Purpose Searching with ‘Macrobond defined’ Searching with ‘By description’ How to add data to a file? Purpose Search is a useful function to quickly find the same indicator for different countries. There are two ways to do this. If the relevant indicator is Macrobond defined, all it takes is a single click to generate the … Continue reading “Search panel – ‘Macrobond defined’ and ‘By description’”