Financial Reporting, Economic Trends, Mondo Data, and Power Pivot

Can recent financial data of public companies help to track the health of the economy? I set up some charts to find out. And that project reconfirmed my opinion about Power Pivot.

Recently, I decided to explore aggregated financial measures to see what I could learn about the economy. My thought was that recent quarterly statements of public companies might provide some useful information about the economy’s current direction.

Using Sharadar data from Nasdaq, I found 82 companies that had reported their quarterly financials within…