In today’s Reproducible Finance post, we will explore state-level unemployment claims which get released every Thursday. The last few weeks have shown huge spikes in those claims, of course, due to the coronavirus and statewide lockdown orders, and it got me wondering how these times will look to data scientists in the future.
Let’s start by importing unemployment insurance claims data for Georgia. This is a data series that’s reported by all 50 states.
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