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A dashboard of key metrics for the USA
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Preliminary jobs data (forecasting national unemployment) #59

Closed DavidNKraemer closed 7 years ago

DavidNKraemer commented 7 years ago

This is a small addition that provides a basic example for modelling the national unemployment rate using BLS and Google Search data. Currently, the model is just being calibrated on the unemployment rate itself, without data, but there's enough here for other people to play with as well.