Displaying historical stock data
Presenting current real-time data is just one analysis used by investors, but to identify trends and insights, we often use historical data. Since the data is historical, we do not capture it in real time. Historical data is more readily available. NASDAQ, for example, enables one to download a company's stock price closing by days, the past few months, years, or even since the beginning of that stock's history. These are downloaded as .csv files, which are comma-separated text data exported and read by Microsoft Excel. Our job is to read these files, parse the data, and display it in 3D.
Engage thrusters
For past demonstrations, we have used the meshObject.js JavaScript file to support our work. Since the 3D mesh ...
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