Data & Methodology
The dashboard turns public and selected third-party data into clear, repeatable charts and indicators. Every chart identifies its source, latest observation, and chart-specific methodology.
Sources and provenance
The dashboard favors authoritative primary sources, including government statistical agencies, regulatory filings, and openly published research datasets. Source links appear with each chart so readers can inspect the original material.
Some charts incorporate third-party data governed by the source provider’s own terms, licenses, revision policies, and availability. Attribution on this site does not replace those terms.
Integrated sources
This inventory distinguishes sources already used in public charts from working connections that remain review-gated. A connection is not publication approval: review-gated sources stay out of public pages and production data until their rights, methodology, and editorial checks are complete. Exact datasets and citations remain listed on each chart.
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Company facts, XBRL frames, filings, filing-text counts, and quarterly Form 13F structured holdings datasets.
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Macroeconomic, labor, financial, housing, and industry series from official publishers.
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Nonfinancial-corporate market value, current-value and historical-cost net worth, recorded intellectual-property products, and other aggregate balance-sheet measures.
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Survey of Consumer Expectations, labor-market expectations, and the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index.
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China Cyclical Activity Tracker and research datasets.
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National accounts, fixed assets, intellectual-property investment and stocks, depreciation, compensation, and integrated production accounts.
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Employment, wages, prices, productivity, occupations, and labor turnover.
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ACS, business formation, construction, manufacturers’ shipments and orders, business dynamics, technology-use surveys, CPS geographic-mobility tables, and Basic CPS public-use microdata.
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Aggregated H-1B and permanent-labor-certification disclosure data.
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Electricity, generation, construction, demand, and energy-price data.
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U.S. Treasury ↗Live
Interest rates, yield curves, and Monthly Treasury Statement receipts via the FiscalData API, including customs duties.
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Historical federal budget data.
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World Bank ↗Live
Global development indicators, military expenditure, commodities, and population context.
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Population estimates and projections.
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Credit and financial-system aggregates.
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NATO ↗Live
Member-country defence expenditure estimates.
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SIPRI ↗Live
Military-expenditure database used in attributed derived charts.
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New York subway ridership and recovery data.
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Aggregated property-sales records.
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Article pageviews, revisions, and editing activity.
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OpenAlex ↗Live
Research works, topics, institutions, affiliations, and authorship metadata.
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Aggregate question-volume signals.
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Job-posting, sector, wage, and AI-posting trackers.
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Epoch AI ↗Live
AI models, compute, and machine-learning hardware data.
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Aggregated occupational and task-level AI-use research.
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METR ↗Live
AI task-completion horizon benchmark results.
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Ember ↗Live
Global electricity generation and clean-power data.
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WFH Research ↗Live
Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes.
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U.S. business-cycle chronology.
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Aggregate annual Consumer Complaint Database counts and product composition; no complaint narratives or row-level records are retained.
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Trailing-year reactor operating-status percentages aggregated to weekly fleet averages.
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Zillow Group ↗Live
Home values (ZHVI), inventory, and asking prices for metro-level housing charts. Data provided by Zillow Group.
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Digest of Education Statistics: degrees conferred by field, level, and sex, annual since the 1940s.
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IMF PortWatch ↗Live
AIS-derived daily ship transits through maritime chokepoints.
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State and county migration flows of tax returns and adjusted gross income from year-over-year address changes.
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UNHCR ↗Live
Refugee, asylum-seeker, and internally-displaced population totals via the population API.
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Archived billion-dollar weather and climate disasters series, 1980-2024 (product discontinued in 2025).
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FAO Food Price Index, monthly world food commodity prices.
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Battle-related deaths, non-state conflict, and one-sided violence datasets, annual since 1989.
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Passenger journeys by mode per TfL reporting period, indexed to matched 2019–20 periods.
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UK company incorporation and dissolution counts via advanced company search, trailing 12-month totals.
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Labour Force Survey employed persons by gender, seasonally adjusted, annual averages since 2000.
Transformations
Charts may rebase, aggregate, seasonally adjust, annualize, normalize, or combine published observations. Proprietary indicators apply a disclosed, repeatable transformation to source data; they are analytical constructions rather than official statistics.
The methodology shown on each chart is the controlling description for that chart.
Updates and revisions
- Data is refreshed according to each source’s publication schedule.
- Historical values may change when a source revises its data.
- Release delays, source outages, and methodology changes can affect freshness or comparability.
- The latest observation date is shown separately from the date a page was viewed.
Interpretation
Charts describe patterns in the available data. Correlations, regressions, and indexed measures are descriptive unless a chart explicitly states otherwise; they should not be read as proof of causation or as forecasts.