How EconMind is produced
and what it does with your data
This page describes how the observatory actually works: where the figures come from, what is done to them, and what is recorded when someone visits the site.
What EconMind is
EconMind is an independent observatory of the Argentine macroeconomy. It compiles the main series from their primary sources, validates them every day and publishes them as open data, with the methodology and the source of every figure in plain sight. It is an anonymous project: it would rather be judged by its data and its method than by whose name is on it.
Data governance
Sources
Every series comes from a primary source or from the body that publishes it as the authority: the BCRA, INDEC, the Ministry of Economy, the World Bank, the IMF and others. The source of each chart is printed directly below it, with the table or series identifier where one exists.
Transformations and EconMind's own calculations
When a figure is not the source's own but a calculation by EconMind — a ratio, a deflated series, a splice — the card says so. The single estimated figure on the site, the cost of an external adjustment, is labelled as an estimate, with its assumption and formula beside it.
Versions and corrections
- Every release is versioned and keeps the moment each observation became known, so revisions by the sources are recorded rather than overwritten.
- Once a month a release is archived on Zenodo with a DOI, so any figure on the site can be cited and recomputed.
- Errors reported by readers are reviewed and, where warranted, the correction goes into the next release. A release already deposited is never rewritten: its DOI promises those exact files.
- Series whose sources do not permit redistribution are shown with their source but left out of the downloads.
AI-generated text
The daily analysis and the assistants' answers are generated automatically by artificial intelligence and are labelled as such wherever they appear. They are neither data nor deterministic calculations: they may contain errors, and the data and their sources are always the reference. EconMind offers no financial advice or investment recommendations.
Licence
The data is published under a CC BY 4.0 licence, except for series whose sources do not allow redistribution.
Privacy
Cookies and analytics
The site sets no cookies and has no analytics, trackers or third-party pixels. Your browser stores your preferences locally — language, dark mode and which sections you left expanded; they never leave your device and you can remove them by clearing the site's data.
What the server records
The site is served through Cloudflare, which handles each request and sees the IP address it comes from. EconMind's API keeps an access log on its own server with the date, the path requested, the response code, the browser's user agent and the IP address. That log is used to run and diagnose the service; it is neither shared nor sold.
Fonts
Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives the browser's IP address when they are requested.
The assistant
When you ask the site's assistant a question, the question is sent to an external language-model provider to write the answer: Groq, or Google (Gemini) when Groq is unavailable. EconMind does not store the questions: it only counts how many were asked each day, to cap usage. What those providers do with the question is governed by their own policies.
Error reports
If you use the "Report an error" button, what is stored is your message, the card you wrote from, the language and a prefix of your IP address (the first three blocks, never the full address), plus your email if you choose to leave one so we can reply. The report is also sent as a push notification through the ntfy.sh service. That data is used only to review and fix what you reported.
The corrections address is forwarded to the project owner's mailbox through Cloudflare Email Routing. Messages are kept in that mailbox.
Contact
For questions about any of this, for corrections, or to ask that a report you sent be deleted, write to correcciones [at] econmind.com.ar.