"New"

I like the FRED Blog. They present little explanations of economic topics by using graphs, much as I do. Only, they know their topic better than I do. I can feel it in their posts. And that's fine. It's why I go there.

But there is a problem. Here are the first two sentences from their latest post, dated 29 May 2014:

What’s new in FRED? Beyond the pie charts we saw on the blog a week ago, FRED also features scatter plots, like the one shown here.

What do they mean, new? Here's a FRED graph from mine of 12 October 2012:

Graph #1: GDP vs TCMDO, YoY% Change (annual data)
Click graph for FRED source page #bJZ

Here's the first line of the first comment on that post, from Jazzbumpa:

Dang! I didn't know you could do a scatter plot at FRED.

That comment is dated October 12, 2012 at 1:58 PM



The Rules of Exposition: 1. Tell the truth.


P.S.: FRED's pie charts aren't new, either.

FRED Blog's May 1, 2014 post

Screen cap:

Nothing fancy, but not bad.

Anyway I wanted to fiddle with their graph, so I clicked "Customize" there at the bottom left corner of the FRED graph... the ALFRED graph.



Got an error!

So I hovered the mouse over the "Customize" text, right-clicked, and copied the link address:

http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=wUh

The last three characters on the right (wUh) identifies the graph. The rest of the link gets you to it. I figured they identified the graph correctly, but just put the wrong path somehow. So I made my own ALFRED graph, copied the link address, pasted it into a textfile and changed the last three letters to wUh:

http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=wUh

That works.

Orange for St. Pattie's Day?