Data management tools
IrisPie implements the following basic types of objects to support and streamline data management in modeling tasks:
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Databox
objects for unstructured data storage, -
Time
Series
objects for time series manipulation, -
Time
Period
objects for time period manipulation and arithmetic, -
Time
Span
objects for spans of multiple time periods, -
Time
Frequency
enumeration 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.