Finding the Perfect Investment for You

The Project
Do you have a hard time figuring out what to do when you're investing your money?
Having a hard time with all the different investing opportunities out there and want to make sure nothing bad happens to your investment?

Project Description

Build software that visually illustrates the value over time of various investment portfolios using up-to-date data for user-chosen investments.

Project Requirements

           1.    Research different available financial data sources and file formats.
           2.    Allow the user to configure a portfolio.
           3.    Prepare data for illustration.
           4.    Use visual attributes (color, size, etc ) to describe the characteristics of the data.
           5.    Animate the data (individual and aggregate) over a time period.
           6.    Illustrate the data for the same month (perhaps day) over a period of years.
           7.    Allow the user to configure and compare the performance of various portfolios.