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Design Study to Visualize Stock Market Bubble Formations and Bursts

Abstract

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The stock market is a very complex and continuously changing environment in which many varying factors shape its growth and decline. Studying interesting trends and analyzing the intricate movements of the market, while ignoring distracting and uninteresting patterns has the potential to save large amounts of money for individuals as well as corporations and governments. This thesis describes research that was conducted with the goal to visualize stock market data in such a way that it is able to show how behavior and movement of various market entities affects the condition of the market as a whole. Different visualizations have been proposed, some that improve on existing traditional methods used by the Finance community and others that are novel in their layout and representation of data and interactions. The proposed design, by the use of interactive multiple coordinated views showing overviews and details of the stock market data using animated bubble charts and statistics, aims to enable the user to visualize market conditions that lead to the formation of a bubble in the market, how they lead to a crash and how the market corrects itself after such a crash.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Computer Science and Applications
Department dc:contributor.department
Computer Science
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2014

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Iyer, Sruthi Ganesan
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Cao, Yong
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • North, Christopher L.
  • Sheetz, Steven D.
  • Webster, Dane

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:3068
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/49100

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citation

Iyer, Sruthi Ganesan. Design Study to Visualize Stock Market Bubble Formations and Bursts. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49100