Macrobond Pay-As-You-Go Data

**Overview**
The Macrobond data feed available on Databricks can deliver any of the time series belonging to the Macrobond's database, via a Private Exchange. Before reaching this step, you can access a sample Public Share for free for a limited period of time.

**The Data**
Collected from over 2,500 national and international sources, supplemented by third-party premium databases available on Macrobond ONE: https://www.macrobond.com/solutions/macrobond-one (subject to licensing), it offers access to the broadest macroeconomic and financial time series database in the world. From developed to emerging and frontier markets, time series are delivered with full history, an extensive set of metadata, and point-in-time vintages where available.
Time series updates are pushed into your Databricks tables and views in real-time as well as delivered instantly when you add or remove time series from your universe, through a dedicated Macrobond data feed management portal.

**How does it work?**

1. [Provided by Macrobond] Find the time series you need via Macrobond Data Explorer: https://amplify.macrobond.com/dataexplorer

2. [Provided by Macrobond] Subscribe to one of the yearly data plans provided by Macrobond Pay-As-You-Go and add the time series you need to the management portal: https://feed.macrobond.com/login.

3. [Provided in Databricks] Consume the selected time series in your Databricks instance from the table and views below.

**Product details**

*- [TABLE] MAIN_ENTITY*
: to retrieve all of your time series with dates, values, metadata, and vintages. Time series are provided in nested objects.

*- [VIEWS] LATEST_ENTITY*
: to retrieve the latest version of each time series only, derived from the latest vintage available in MAIN_ENTITY, containing dates and values, and metadata.

*- [TABLE] REVISION*
: to access point-in-time vintages of your time series (where applicable)

*- [VIEWS] SUBSCRIPTION*
: providing a summary of your subscribed universe with a few metadata fields such 'number of revisions' or 'last update in Databricks'
Make a use of Databricks's SQL queries (see examples in the attached notebook) to flatten the json objects and retrieve a tabular version of your time series and the associated metadata fields.

For more details, refer to the embedded notebook and the documentation provided by Macrobond: https://help.macrobond.com/technical-information/databricks-feed/

**Use cases**
Here are some of the most popular use cases for the Macrobond data.

- Quantitative Analysis

Updated in real time, Macrobond’s rich data is used to drive investment strategies relying on macroeconomic and top down financial data inputs. Macro quant, fixed income and cross asset strategies are some of the standard use cases for Macrobond data to generate signals and uncover alpha.

- Economic Impact Analysis

Economists, strategists and analysts use Macrobond’s depth of data to quickly understand how the real world economy is impacting the financial markets to inform their asset allocation strategies. Our 300+ million time series data are broken down into concepts and categories across the globe giving a clear picture of what regions and sectors are likely to perform during the economic cycle.

- Machine Learning

Macrobond has an extensive set of metadata - 300+ unique fields that provide highly curated descriptive information on macroeconomic concepts to train machine learning models and uncover both systematic and quantitative links between various concepts and sources. By providing the most comprehensive macroeconomic and financial data on the market today, machine learning models can identify links and trends quickly.

- Risk Analysis

Asset allocators, asset owners and risk managers use Macrobond’s data to quickly understand how the real world economy is impacting the financial markets to inform how their investments will be impacted by changing economic cycles. Asset allocators use this information to ensure that they can communicate to asset owners what risks have been identified that will impact a funds performance and what changes are being considered to minimize the impact.

**Additional Insights**
See Macrobond's Charts of the Week at: https://www.macrobond.com/insights/charts-of-the-week