Column Unemployment Example (United States, Monthly)

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Concept reference from Fizz Studio demo: ParaCharts demo bar chart

Scenario

Track the U.S. unemployment rate across the most recent 12 published months.

Data Source And Refresh

• Source: BLS public API series LNS14000000.
• Source URL: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 (series viewer) and https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/LNS14000000 (API endpoint).
• Refresh cadence: Monthly via GitHub Actions cache update workflow.
• Data continuity: This page will continue updating while BLS publishes compatible data.

When To Use

Use a column/bar-style chart to compare values across time intervals.

Manifest

<para-chart manifest="data/manifests/us-unemployment-monthly.json"></para-chart>

Full manifest (JSON):

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mgifford/ParaCharts/main/docs/data/manifests/us-unemployment-monthly.json

Interpretation Prompts

1. Which recent month has the highest unemployment value?
2. Are there any month-to-month reversals in direction?
3. How different is the latest month from the earliest month shown?