The stock explorer application
In this section, we will use D3 and Backbone to create a single page application to display a time series of stock prices. The user will be able to select different stocks and a period of time in order to get a detail view. The page will have several components:
- Context chart: This chart will display the complete series of prices that are available for the stock. It will have a brush component that selects a time interval.
- Detail chart: This will be a bigger area chart that will show you the stock prices for the time interval selected in the context chart.
- Control view: This view will show you a control that selects the stock.
- Stock title: This will display the name of the company.
We will display the control and title ...
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