JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(9): 1391-1410, doi: 10.3217/jucs-014-09-1391
NASDAQ Velocity and Forces: An Interactive Visualization of Activity and Change
expand article infoHuyen Tue Dao‡, Adam Bazinet‡, Robin Berthier‡, Ben Shneiderman‡
‡ University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America

Corresponding author: Huyen Dao ( daotueh@umd.edu )

© Huyen Dao, Adam Bazinet, Robin Berthier, Ben Shneiderman.
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Citation: Dao HT, Bazinet A, Berthier R, Shneiderman B (2008) NASDAQ Velocity and Forces: An Interactive Visualization of Activity and Change. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(9): 1391-1410. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-014-09-1391
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Abstract
NASDAQ Market Velocity and Market Forces are two relatively new data products that attempt to capture market sentiment, something that was previously only observable if one was on a trading floor. Given the transient and temporal properties of the data, we were challenged to create a visualization that would highlight the ever-changing qualities of Velocity and Forces. To that end, we developed FireStox, a web application that provides unified representation and filtering solutions to help market researchers observe the behavior of these metrics for one or many companies throughout the course of a trading day.
Keywords
stock market visualization, stock market data analysis, NASDAQ velocity and forces, graphical user interface, information visualization