My first journey

Hello everyone,

Here goes my story for the The Data Geek Challenge

I took the Stock values from the EUR/USD from 01.01.1971 to today (Monthly values)

Well I think I first need to explain a little:

-every monthly entry has an Opening, Closing, High, Low price

With this info I started.

I was curious about some statements you hear the last time:

-is the range (difference between High and low) bigger the last time

-can I simple visualize the bigger and smaller stock market crashes

Well Here are the visualizations :

First up, the tag cloud representation for the dates were we had the biggest negative range (Open-Close)

Well indeed the difficult years (crashes and other big pull downs) are nicely in the center!

And see there…2008 was actually the biggest monthly fall from 1971 till now!

In a Phie Chart…we also see…at 1.10.2008 we had a drop in the EURUSD of 2.24%…

Same view in the Tree Map

And we also can see that the ranges go bigger and bigger if markets are dropping

Well it’s it’s a nice tool I think… maybe not that suitable for Stock-markets….

Anyway I learned the basics of SAP Lumira

Best regards,