IMF Data Discovery and Collection
summary
Claims that the IMF JSON RESTful web service is usable but inconsistent across series and too complex for non-developers, and shows a working Python workflow that queries the IMF JSON RESTful web service, converts responses to pandas DataFrames, computes quarter‑on‑quarter percent change and plots results. Builds an extensible wrapper called the IMF data Pi package to search by name instead of index codes, include metadata, add unit tests and documentation, and demonstrates the package successfully pulling and processing real GDP series.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00IMF data discovery intro
- 1:09IMF data sets and extraction
- 4:28IMF data access tools
- 8:03IMF data structure definitions
- 11:15IMF JSON RESTful API usage
- 14:54IMF data access challenges
- 15:37IMF data access packages
- 17:04IMF data Pi package intro
- 18:34IMF data Pi package demo
- 21:07IMF future improvements
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