Example tasks
From data release to working paper
Chart the Fed's reversal
Yield curve, CPI, and PCE from FRED — how markets repriced from expecting cuts to pricing in hikes.
Test the yield curve's recession signal
Inversions against recessions at every lag, written up as a LaTeX paper with regression tables.
Find AI's missing productivity boom
Labor and total factor productivity from FRED — is adoption showing up in the aggregate numbers yet?
Quantify data centers' grid strain
EIA demand data with load growth isolated in data-center-heavy regions, projected through 2030.
Why Atlas
Analysis you can refresh
Live data, not screenshots
Series come from FRED, EIA, and official statistics at run time — rerun the notebook and the chart updates.
From notebook to working paper
The same workspace writes and compiles LaTeX with figures, tables, and a BibTeX bibliography.
Reactive by design
Change the window, the deflator, or the sample and everything downstream re-runs automatically.