Posts tagged“datasets”

A field guide to vetting numbers on the internet: prefer primaries over resellers, demand methodology, check units and seasonality, and the seven red flags that expose sloppy data.

• data-quality
• methodology
• research
• datasets

EUR/USD is the most traded currency pair in the world. Here is what the rate actually quotes, the five forces that move it, and how to read euro–dollar charts without the jargon.

• currencies
• economics
• forex
• datasets

A practical tour of the best free economic data APIs — FRED, BLS, Eurostat, World Bank, IMF — with endpoints, limits, license notes and the gotchas that trip up real projects.

• apis
• economics
• developers
• fred
• datasets

Wikipedia pageviews are a free, high-frequency, publicly auditable measure of what people actually care about. Here is how to read them — and what five years of the 'Artificial Intelligence' article show.

• ai
• wikipedia
• pageviews
• datasets

npm download counts are the closest thing to a popularity vote the JavaScript ecosystem has. Here is how to rank frameworks fairly, what the numbers hide, and the current state of the top five.

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

MMLU and HumanEval are the two most quoted LLM benchmarks in the world. Here is what each actually measures, why scores are not comparable across vendors, and how to avoid the most common benchmark trap.

• llm
• benchmarks
• ai
• datasets

The federal funds rate is the most important interest rate in the world. Here is what it actually is, how the Fed controls it, and how it reaches your mortgage, your savings and your portfolio.

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

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

• inflation
• cpi
• economics
• fred
• datasets