Tools & Reference
Learn, build, and verify — educational content, API access, and source transparency.
This section is about understanding and extending the data in the rest of the dashboard.
Learn is for building economic literacy — whether you're a realtor who wants to explain interest rate impacts to clients, an investor trying to understand the boom-bust cycle, or anyone who wants to be more fluent with the numbers on the other pages. It uses the same live data as the rest of the dashboard, so the examples are always current.
API Docs is for developers. Alberta Pulse Check exposes its data through REST API endpoints — if you want to pull this data into your own tools, that's where to start.
Data Sources is our commitment to transparency. Every number on this dashboard comes from a public government source, and this page tells you exactly which one. No proprietary data, no black boxes. If you see something that looks wrong, you can trace it back to the original source and verify it yourself.
Learn Alberta Economics
Interactive educational content that uses live dashboard data to teach economic concepts — how interest rates work, what drives Alberta's boom-bust cycle, how to read labour statistics, and what leading vs. lagging indicators mean in practice. Designed for anyone who wants to go from "I see the numbers" to "I understand what they mean."
Bank of Canada, Statistics Canada, Edmonton Open Data
API Documentation
Interactive documentation for Alberta Pulse Check's API endpoints. If you're a developer building on top of this data — or want to integrate it into your own tools, dashboards, or analysis pipelines — this page lets you explore endpoints, see request/response shapes, and test queries live.
Internal API reference
Data Sources
A complete, transparent catalogue of every external data source powering this dashboard — Bank of Canada, Statistics Canada, Alberta Open Data, CMHC, AER, Environment Canada, municipal ArcGIS servers, and more. Each entry includes the source URL, update frequency, and what we use it for. If you want to verify a number or go deeper, start here.
Reference page — no live data