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In every topic we will take little side trips that show how to create shades in a time series (very useful for recessions), how to identify a bear market, how to build dual Y-axis charts, how to index to any date, how to reconstruct the dollar index. Those are our specific tasks, but all of them provide you with the paradigm to build those same tools but for different economic series or construct you own tools-it's up to your creativity and that's our goal. We want to unleash the creativity in all of us, that's how we view data science... A common thread in this book is data wrangling. We will slowly create a dataframe that holds variables we wish to track and analyze regularly. You, reader, will almost certainly wish to include different variables than what's covered in this book. Our goal is to provide the tools to do so!... This books covers a lot of data, code and charts. We build things from scratch and show you all of our code. We do not spend a lot of time on theory or delving..