1.Standardizing Macroeconomic Time-Series Data
Economic Research Dashboard · 2026
An economic research analyst replaced a manual data ingestion process with a repeatable dashboard to track macroeconomic indicators. The dashboard presents a standardized view of the federal funds rate, unemployment rate, and CPI, noting a fed funds and unemployment correlation of -0.44. Peak unemployment reached 14.80% in April 2020, while peak fed funds hit 5.33% in August 2023, and CPI reached 333.98 in May 2026. By using Z-scores to align indicators on a common scale, the analyst established a reliable ground truth while mitigating measurement bias in the underlying time-series data.
What it shows:
How standardizing time-series data creates a reliable baseline for predictive modeling.




