Posts tagged“datasets”

Vetting numbers online: prefer primary sources, demand methodology, check units and seasonality, and watch for the seven red flags of sloppy data.

• data-quality
• methodology
• research
• datasets

EUR/USD is the world's most traded currency pair. What the rate really quotes, the five forces that move it, and how to read euro–dollar charts.

• currencies
• economics
• forex
• datasets

The best free economic data APIs — FRED, BLS, Eurostat, World Bank, IMF — with endpoints, limits, licenses and the gotchas that break real projects.

• apis
• economics
• developers
• fred
• datasets

Wikipedia pageviews are a free, high-frequency, auditable measure of what people care about: what five years of the 'Artificial Intelligence' article show.

• ai
• wikipedia
• pageviews
• datasets

npm downloads are the closest thing JavaScript has to a popularity vote — how to rank frameworks fairly, what the numbers hide, and the current top five.

• javascript
• npm
• frameworks
• developer-tools
• datasets

MMLU and HumanEval are the most quoted LLM benchmarks. What each measures, why scores aren't comparable across vendors, and how to avoid the benchmark trap.

• llm
• benchmarks
• ai
• datasets

The federal funds rate is the world's most important interest rate. What it is, how the Fed sets it, and how it moves your mortgage, savings and portfolio.

• interest-rates
• federal-reserve
• economics
• fred
• datasets

What the U.S. inflation rate actually measures, why year-over-year CPI is the number to watch, and how to read it without the noise of monthly prints.

• inflation
• cpi
• economics
• fred
• datasets