Part of the process of analyzing data, is first aquiring the data.
I became interested in crypto coins, not because I have money to invest, but because I wanted to analyze data that was freely available and showed great volatility. What better place than the dollar price of various crypto coins?
Here's how I did it
If you want to skip to the end and download the code for yourself here's a link to my GitHub repo: CoinAPI Call repo
So, we now have a little bit of data about the price of various CryptoCoins stored in our PostgreSQL database. The question becomes: What can we do with it? I built a simple Dashboard to allow the end user to filter the data by Coin type, Start Date, and Finish Date.
I wanted to see if I could create an animated Data plot using a GIF file. Here's the results!