Web search is for text. Subsets is for numbers.

Search and SQL over 1 up‑to‑date datasets from official statistical sources, cleaned into plain relational tables. Every number traces back to the open-source run that produced it.

pip install subsetsio
subsets sync --bundle small # or medium, or all
subsets serve # search + SQL at http://localhost:8080

Free and open — the data syncs straight from the public bucket, and search + SQL run entirely on your machine. See docs →

Web search vs. Subsets

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Point lookup

Ask both: “How high did Australian inflation spike during the Korean War wool boom?”

Web searchvague

“Inflation surged in the early 1950s — retrospectives suggest prices rose by somewhere around 20% at the peak of the boom.”

Paraphrased from a retrospective article · no primary source, no exact figure

With Subsets
SELECT obs_date, value_text
FROM "reserve-bank-of-australia-g1-data"
WHERE series_id = 'GCPIAGYP'
  AND obs_date BETWEEN '1951-01-01' AND '1951-12-31'

Q4 1951 · +25.6% year on year

Source

Reserve Bank of Australia · G1 — Consumer price inflation · view the dataset →

Where every number comes from

Official source

rba.gov.au · raw release

Statistical agencies and central banks like the ONS, RBA, and Bundesbank publish the raw data.

Open-source connector

subsetsio/connectors

The exact ingestion code is public. Read it, fork it, file an issue.

Public CI run

public run logs

Every table is built in a logged workflow run, one click from its dataset page.

Versioned table

rba g1-data · pinned

Revisions are tracked and reviewed. Your agent queries a pinned version.