This Julia package provides functions to retrieve FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting schedules from the Federal Reserve website and visualize them in a calendar format.
You can install this package using the Julia package manager. From the Julia REPL, type ] to enter the Pkg mode and then run:
pkg> add https://github.com/elenev/FOMCMeetings.jl
To retrieve FOMC meeting dates, use the get_fomc_meetings function:
using FOMCMeetings
meetings = get_fomc_meetings(1998)This function returns a vector containing the dates of FOMC meetings starting in 1998 (which is also the defaut value).
To visualize FOMC meetings in a calendar format, use the view_fomc_calendar function:
using FOMCMeetings
using DataFrames
# View FOMC
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meetings in calendar format
calendar_df = view_fomc_calendar(meetingdates)This function creates a DataFrame containing year, month, and day columns based on the input DataFrame meetingdates, and then unstacks the DataFrame to create a wide-format DataFrame with columns for each month of the year. The resulting DataFrame can be used to visualize FOMC meetings in a calendar format. view_fomc_calendar also accepts a DataFrame with a :date column.
This package is licensed under the MIT License.