The glitch is in my head

Something that never came up until we had the pandemic recession, because the recession was so short:

The whole year's RGDP for 2020 shows up on the graph before the 2020 recession. When I first noticed this, it really threw me. It's even more confusing (and easier to miss) for quarterly data.

I understand that the 2020 data point is shown at start-of-year. But somehow I missed the significance of that for several years.

Signed,
senile math major

Oh!

I just noticed that the FRED system now SHOWS ME that my CPI data has been converted to "annual" frequency using "average" aggregation.

THANK YOU!

I can't figure out what's going on with this

In the "Format" window for formatting a FRED graph, sometimes the Height and Width fields for size-of-graph are there, and sometimes they are missing.

If it has to be that way, so be it. I'm hoping it's just an oversight that can be fixed.

Oh, you made my day!

 I just found the Height and Width options for graph size:

Thank you so much. You have simplified my life.

 

Truth be told, the height and width fields might have been there for weeks, dunno. I only just noticed em now. Looks good, too.

Oh!

I just got a message that FREDGraph left a line off my graph and I might want to uncheck the LogScale option.

Thank you!

Oh, my head is spinning now

I don't like change. So I looked at the "Enhanced Graph Accessibility" option, tried it out, and went back to the old edit system. That was a few days ago.

Today I was finishing up a graph, and wanted to change the color of Line 5. But I could not, because the color-change window (in the old edit system) now appears halfway off the screen. I could not scroll the screen to access the color-data field because scrolling the screen makes the color-change window disappear. 

I was going to blog that problem. But then I remembered the new system. I switched to the new system and changed the color easily. Then I changed the line type from SOLID to DASH, and the graph was done.

I was all set to set the size to 800x450 and download the image. That's when I discovered that I could not find the set-graph-size fields in the Enhanced system. So I went back to the old edit system and set the size there, no problem. Then I looked at my graph.

Problema! Line 5 appears as a SOLID line in the old system. I switched to the Enhanced system, and checked: In the new system the line is DASHed. I switched again to the old system and checked: In the old system the line is SOLID.

My new-system graph is  https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Cnix

In the old system I'm editing line 5 to make it DASHed.
The line changed to DASHed, as expected.
I saved it in the old system as:  https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Cnku

I opened 1Cnku in a new window, and the line came up SOLID. 

I went back to the original 1Cnku, where line 5 was DASHed, and refreshed the screen. Line 5 came up SOLID here, too.

Yikes!

Okay. I reloaded 1Cnix, the one where I changed the color for line 5, and the line type to DASHed. Line 5 came up as solid here, too. Looks to me like it makes the change on the screen, but does not save it (Share Links: Page Short URL") in EITHER system.

I need a drink!

Line width

This morning, the first line I put on the graph has a default line width of 2, and the second line has a default line width of 3. That happened three times. The third line also has a default line width of 3. Looks like a glitch to me.

Not a problem, but I can't ignore it until after I say something.

Oh, and the "Sources" information has been reformatted? Looks good!