I just spent the last couple of days updating myself on the newest research on currency management. For the best real-time (delayed about a year) broad look, BIS puts out an incredibly helpful Triennial Central Bank Survey of foreign exchange... in which you see things like this
and this.
pdfs suffer from a lack of interactivity, so I thought why not use Inkscape’s PDF to SVG conversion to strip the above chart and make it SVG. Then, if everything goes well, experiment with some basic interactivity provided by d3.js. Here is what happened.
If anyone would like a more extensive write up of the process, please let me know.