Application of centrality metrics across time slices
The NASDAQ stock market is an American stock exchange in New York City that includes publicly traded companies such as Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Microsoft. Kaggle provides a full history of NASDAQ stock prices under a public license (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jacksoncrow/stock-market-dataset?resource=download) that can give us stock data for these four tech companies during the period in which they were all publicly traded up to April 1, 2020. We’ve munged the data for you to include only these four stocks in the period from August 19, 2004, to April 1, 2020. Let’s take a peek at these data to see what trends might exist (Figure 6.4):
Figure 6.4 – NASDAQ selected stock closing values from August 19, 2004, to April 1, 2020
In Figure 6.4, we can see that Alphabet has a consistently higher price, but all stocks exhibit the typical trends of constant pricing, dips, spikes, and...
