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Python for Finance Cookbook – Second Edition

You're reading from   Python for Finance Cookbook – Second Edition Over 80 powerful recipes for effective financial data analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243191
Length 740 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Eryk Lewinson Eryk Lewinson
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Acquiring Financial Data 2. Data Preprocessing FREE CHAPTER 3. Visualizing Financial Time Series 4. Exploring Financial Time Series Data 5. Technical Analysis and Building Interactive Dashboards 6. Time Series Analysis and Forecasting 7. Machine Learning-Based Approaches to Time Series Forecasting 8. Multi-Factor Models 9. Modeling Volatility with GARCH Class Models 10. Monte Carlo Simulations in Finance 11. Asset Allocation 12. Backtesting Trading Strategies 13. Applied Machine Learning: Identifying Credit Default 14. Advanced Concepts for Machine Learning Projects 15. Deep Learning in Finance 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Creating interactive visualizations

In the first recipe, we have already given a short preview of creating interactive visualizations in Python. In this recipe, we will show how to create interactive line plots using 3 different libraries: cufflinks, plotly, and bokeh. Naturally, these are not the only available libraries for interactive visualizations. Another popular one you might want to investigate further is altair.

The plotly library is built on top of d3.js (a JavaScript library used for creating interactive visualizations in web browsers) and is known for creating high-quality plots with a significant degree of interactivity (inspecting values of observations, viewing tooltips of a given point, zooming in, and so on). Plotly is also the company responsible for developing this library and provides hosting for our visualizations. We can create an infinite number of offline visualizations and a few free ones to share online (with a limited number of views per day).

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