A visualization for Weekly stock data for Dow Jones Index using the vega-lite-api.

This dataset comprises data reported by the major stock exchanges, it is at: https://gist.github.com/mkt-ds/04aa46b5d29d4314cc1cfa491651276a (the data source: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/dow+jones+index)

This data can be used to give user an idea where to invest the next week. The data shows 1 weekly change. Each record shows the percentage of return that stock has in the following week (percent_change_next_weeks_price).

Main goal is to determine which stock will give the greatest rate of return in the following week by maximizing the percent_change_next_weeks_price field.

The stocks that made up the index in this data set are:

3M MMM American Express AXP Alcoa AA AT&T T Bank of America BAC Boeing BA Caterpillar CAT Chevron CVX Cisco Systems CSCO Coca-Cola KO DuPont DD ExxonMobil XOM General Electric GE Hewlett-Packard HPQ The Home Depot HD Intel INTC IBM IBM Johnson & Johnson JNJ JPMorgan Chase JPM Kraft KRFT McDonald's MCD Merck MRK Microsoft MSFT Pfizer PFE Procter & Gamble PG Travelers TRV United Technologies UTX Verizon VZ Wal-Mart WMT Walt Disney DIS

There are 750 data records.

There are 16 attributes.

For each Attribute quarter: the yearly quarter (1 = Jan-Mar; 2 = Apr=Jun). stock: the stock symbol (see above) date: the last business day of the work (this is typically a Friday) open: the price of the stock at the beginning of the week high: the highest price of the stock during the week low: the lowest price of the stock during the week close: the price of the stock at the end of the week volume: the number of shares of stock that traded hands in the week percent_change_price: the percentage change in price throughout the week percent_change_volume_over_last_wek: the percentage change in the number of shares of stock that traded hands for this week compared to the previous week previous_weeks_volume: the number of shares of stock that traded hands in the previous week next_weeks_open: the opening price of the stock in the following week next_weeks_close: the closing price of the stock in the following week percent_change_next_weeks_price: the percentage change in price of the stock in the following week days_to_next_dividend: the number of days until the next dividend percent_return_next_dividend: the percentage of return on the next dividend