Visual Finance – Data visualization tools
- Name of sponsoring organization: Major League Hacking
- Details of the activity (e.g., where, when)
- April 20,21
- Bossone Research Enterprise Center
- My team’s project: Visual Finance, an interactive BI data visualization tool to illustrate the comparison between companies’ financial performance over a period of time. The theme is Retro Gaming, so we decided to go with financial dataset of top gaming companies over a period of 10 years.
- What you learned
- Converted large dataset to JSON arrays
- Used Javascript to manipulate arrays as objects
- Applied Push() method to create different data lines in one graph
- Utilized jQuery and Bootstrap framework to design responsive website
- How the activity relates to coursework or your career goals
- Coursework: Javascript, HTML, CSS from MIS 2402 and MIS 3406
- Career goals: I was exposed to these possible career paths: Tech Consultant, Business Analyst, or Full-stack Web Developer
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