Learning Pandas

Plotting time-series prices

We will perform a graphical comparison of the closing values for AAPL and MSFT. Using the closing prices DataFrame, it is simple to plot the values for a specific stock using the .plot() method of Series. The following plots the adjusted closing price for AAPL:

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   # plot the closing prices of AAPL
   close_px['AAPL'].plot();

The following code plots the adjusted closing price for MSFT:

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   # plot the closing prices of MSFT
   close_px['MSFT'].plot();

Both sets of closing values can easily be displayed on a single ...