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Why should we be dependent on CNN or BBC to tell us what the GDP of our country is? Why should we know from someone else that the unemployment rate has been growing over years? We don’t need to experience a dot-com bubble burst or a Subprime crisis to realize that the economy is volatile and one must keep a close watch.
It’s the age of informed decisions and proactive measures. The problem then is to make sense of the available public data. Most of the time, it’s difficult to figure out where you can find the information for what you are looking for. If that’s not painful enough, most of the available data is not presented in a user friendly format. Being an analyst, it was easier for me to pull the data from these sites and get meaning out of them. It was a time consuming process but I was paid for this. This need to have information presented in a way people could understand gave birth to the concept ‘F-Cube’.
What started as a source of data on labor statistics, today hosts a series of data on numerous parameters ranging from green energy to Crime. The new data sources are just the initial steps towards the end vision. The home page now has current as well as most talked about topics on economics from Twitter.
The various data sources added to F-Cube include Economic Analysis, Green Energy, Demography, Federal and Crime. Apart from the new data sources, a Knowledge Repository is also added to F-Cube. This would provide information on various topics ranging from general economy to the current trends.
We are currently working on other available data and would make it available in the future releases. F-Cube is not just an attempt to let you make informed decisions but also help you take proactive measures. For this we would soon be coming up with the forecasting of the various parameters. F-Cube is started with US data but would be going global as per the data availability of different nations.
Note : FCube http://www.f-cube.us/ is the Free Economic Reporting Portal from InRev.
