Your first five minutes on Timetric¶

Signing up¶

First, open yourself an account! Go to our registration page.

Fill out your details here.

Congratulations — you now have a Timetric account! You’ll be redirected to your dashboard.

The dashboard¶

The dashboard’s the first thing you’ll see each time you come back to Timetric. It’s the hub of the site; from here, you can search for data you’re looking for, get a quick overview of the series you’re most interested in, analyse the data you’ve found, and create new series.

But at the moment, it’s empty:

Finding a series¶

So let’s go ahead and find some data to add to it. There’s more help on finding data on Timetric which you can have a look at later, but for now, let’s search for “Euro dollar“. Type that into the search box on the dashboard and hit “search” and you’ll get back a page of results:

Now let’s have a look at the result at the bottom of the screenshot — the Dollar–Euro exchange rate. This data’s imported from the UK’s National Statistics service at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/; we’ve combed the Web for data like this to add to Timetric. (If there’s some data out there we don’t have which you want, let us know!)

Interesting data! Now, click on the star. Next time you go back to your dashboard, this series will be bookmarked there waiting for you. Let’s do that now — click on the “Dashboard” link in the top right corner.

Now, every time you come back to Timetric, this series will be on your dashboard where you can quickly cast an eye over it.

So that’s how you get started with Timetric! We’ve barely scratched the surface, though — you can create new series of your own, either by calculating them from data you’ve found or entering new data, and you can plot graphs to analyze the relationships between different series. We’ll move onto covering those in a moment.