FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
FRED, run by the St. Louis Fed, offers a very large library of US and international economic series with observations, release calendars, categories and ALFRED vintage dates that show what was known on any past day. Pulling the series a business tracks into the Lake gives forecasts and board packs a single, versioned source of macro data.
- Category
- Public & Market Data
- Type
- Central bank
- Interface
- REST API
- Built with
- Connect Any API
- Credentials
- API key
02Data
What you can sync.
- Economic series
- Observations
- Releases
- Categories
- Vintage dates
Join FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) economic series with your own figures, so plans and reports carry the market context they need.
Need more? Name any other FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) data the API returns, and the AI adds it to the connector.
03Credentials
Credentials you will need.
- An API key
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) uses an API key. You add the credentials once, when the AI asks for them, and it tells you where to create them in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis if you need help.
04Questions
Questions you can answer.
Once FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) data is in your Lake, ask an AI Mind in plain words or build the answer in DataPrism BI.
- Which series, such as housing starts or retail sales, correlate with our monthly bookings at a three-month lag?
- How did our forecast error change when we used first-release values instead of revised ones?
- What is our revenue in real terms using the PCE price index?
- Which upcoming releases cover the indicators in our planning model?
- How does our customer default rate compare with national delinquency series?
05How it works
How it works in DataMind.
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Pick FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).
Open Lake, pick FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) in the source picker and name the connection. Connect Any API opens with a ready prompt that points the AI at the FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API docs.
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Answer a few questions.
The AI reads the FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) documentation, then asks which credentials you will use, which data to sync (for example economic series and observations), whether you want a one-time load or a recurring sync, and which accounts or filters apply.
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Your data lands in Lake.
It builds the connector, tests it and shows you sample rows. Then FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) data loads into your Lake on your schedule, ready for the Warehouse, DataPrism BI and AI Minds.
06Pairs
Works well with FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).
Sources teams join with FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) in the Warehouse, each one connected the same way.