Guide to Economic Data + Interactive Visualization in R

As of January 2018

Jeff Chen / Chief Innovation Officer

Andrea Batch / Economist

Getting started with data visualization involves climbing a learning curve. This guide straightens the curve through intuitive tutorials focused on visualization of economic data. It is an evolving document that will grow and be refined. In the current version, two topics are covered:

• Accessing economic data via the BEA API using BEA’s R Library
• Creating interactive maps