Professors’ Conference November 2008 Bob Rasche Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Outline Creating a User Account on research.stlouisfed.org Using FRED Graphs Setting up your graph collection Static vs dynamic graphs Customizing your graphs Using GeoFRED Maps Setting up your map collection Customizing your maps Slide Shows
FRED Graphs
Coming Fred Graph Attractions Bar Graphs Scatter Charts “Build a Briefing Book”
GeoFRED
Creating your own Map
Creating Slide Shows (Flip Charts) Set up your preferred map Use the all available data option to fix the data intervals Select the date range that you want for your flip chart Be patient while GeoFRED creates your show In Acrobat (early versions may not contain this feature) select: Advanced Document Processing Page Transitions Transitions = Replace; Autoflip after 1 second. OK