Introduction

mini-kep is a small ETL (extract, transform, load) framework and a dataset for Russian and global macroeconomic time series with public end-user API.

This work is inspired by St Louis FRED and Data Science Cookiecutter and aims to provide open, timely, machine-readable data for reproducible analysis in economics.

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Motivation

Why another database for macroeconomic data?

• Machine-readable datafeeds for economic data are growing (FRED, quandl, OECD, World Bank, EIA).

• However, some data is still left in the dark. Russian macroeconomic statistics seems very fragmented (HTML, Word, Excel are common dessimination formats). This is a roadblock to reproducible analysis as dirty data escalates costs of model maintenance.

• mini-kep aims to remove this roadblock by providing public API for Russian macroeconomic data and examples of economic research/business planning/marketing problems solved in python pandas or R.

Project links

Data browser: http://macrodash.herokuapp.com

Repositories:

• parsers
• database
• data browser
• user charts

This documentation is stored at https://github.com/mini-kep/documentation.