Introduction

Learn what BLS is and why it's great. We'll also look at an example to understand how to retrieve data through python scripts.

Brief description

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a US government department. They collect and publish huge amounts of employment and economics-related data and have done for decades now.

Admiration for BLS

Admiration for BLS jumped to a new level when we discovered their well-supported application programming interface (API). This opens up all that amazing data to intelligent retrieval through our Python scripts. It also gives us some rich data for discovery, as shown in the following figure.

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