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”
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’”
Overview Locate series in tree in Analytics activity Search activity Overview Most time series are available in more than one view of the database, such as Source & Release or Concept & Category. ‘Locate series in Tree’ is an action that makes it easy to hop between these different views when looking at a particular … Continue reading “Locate series in Tree”
What can I use Releases tab for? What time is displayed in Release tab? Settings Filter tab Regions tab Important & Favorites releases iCal – calendar How can I know that release was updated? How to see headline or all series in a release? Individual time series are organized in releases – data packages containing … Continue reading “Releases activity tab – future updates”
Since the release of version 1.30 of MB Analysis, we have introduced an enhanced data exploration workflow. See Quick view and My templates functionality which allow using ready-made templates combining charts and tables in one screen. See below for prototype of this functionality available before version 1.30. Visualize time series for a quick review How … Continue reading “Quickly visualize time series”