Input dataset

For our example, the dataset that we are going to use here is the daily Google (GOOG) Quotes price dataset over a 6 month period from July 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014. This is a good dataset to understand how we can quickly analyze simple datasets, such as these, with ELK.

Note

This dataset can be easily downloaded from the following source:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=GOOG

Data format for input dataset

The most significant fields of this dataset are Date, Open Price, Close Price, High Price, Volume, and Adjusted Price.

The following table shows some of the sample data from the dataset. The actual dataset is in the CSV format.

Date	Open	High	Low	Close	Volume	Adj Close
Dec 31, 2014	531.25	532.60	525.80	526.40	1,368,200	526.40
Dec 30, 2014	528.09	531.15	527.13	530.42	876,300	530.42
Dec 29, 2014	532.19	535.48	530.01	530.33	2,278,500	530.33
Dec 26, 2014	528.77	534.25	527.31	534.03	1,036,000	534.03
Dec 24, 2014	530.51	531.76	527.02	528.77 ...