Fetch Alphacast Series

Pull individual Alphacast series into a pipeline by series ID, in wide or long format, with optional scale conversion.

The Fetch Alphacast Series step imports one or more individual series rather than a whole dataset. Use it when you need a handful of specific indicators that live in different datasets.

Configuration

Field	Description
Series	The series to import. Each entry is identified by its series ID.
Output format	Wide gives one column per series, joined on date. Long gives Date, Country and Value columns, with the series stacked.
Scale	Optional. Converts every series to a single unit scale so values are comparable.

Wide vs long

Wide is the default. Series are merged on Date with an outer join, so the output covers the union of all dates and leaves gaps where a series has no observation.

Long stacks the series instead, adding a Country entity column. Pick this when the series share a meaning and differ by country — it keeps the data in the shape most Alphacast charts and dashboards expect.

If every series resolves to the same country and that country is unknown, the Country column is dropped rather than filled with a placeholder.

The step fails if a configured series ID cannot be found, or if a scale conversion is impossible between the source and target units. It does not skip the series silently.

Next steps

Fetch Alphacast Dataset

Import a whole dataset instead of individual series.

Select Series

Reduce an existing dataset down to specific series.