Visualizing Data and the Online FRED Database

Autor/in	Méndez-Carbajo, Diego
Titel	Visualizing Data and the Online FRED Database
Quelle	In: Journal of Economic Education, 46 (2015) 4, S.420-429 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0485
DOI	10.1080/00220485.2015.1071222
Schlagwörter	Economics Education; Databases; Visual Aids; Teaching Methods; Macroeconomics; Learning Activities; College Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftskunde; Datenbank; Anschauungsmaterial; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Makroökonomie; Lernaktivität; Hochschullehre
Abstract	The author discusses a pedagogical strategy based on data visualization and analysis in the teaching of intermediate macroeconomics and financial economics. In these short projects, students collect and manipulate economic data from the online Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED) in order to illustrate theoretical relationships discussed in class. All the data collection and manipulation tasks are conducted through the FRED Web site. The author argues that as students locate and effectively use the quantitative information that they need to evaluate abstract concepts, they are in effect developing the connection between theories and empirical evidence that underpins the discipline of economics. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01