Data management tools
IrisPie implements the following basic types of objects to support and streamline data management in modeling tasks:
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Databoxobjects for unstructured data storage, -
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Seriesobjects for time series manipulation, -
Time
Periodobjects for time period manipulation and arithmetic, -
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Spanobjects for spans of multiple time periods, -
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Frequencyenumeration for user convenience of referring to time frequencies.
While similar functionality is available in other third-party packages or in standard Python libraries, the IrisPie implementation is specifically geared towards flexible and fluid use with macroeconomic and financial data.