Something to Think About Before Black Friday | rChart + dygraphs

US Retail stocks have been killing it.  Since the holiday season starting with Black Friday is so important to retail, let’s look at the US Retail industry price and Sharpe ratio using R rCharts and Performance analytics +  javascript dygraphs.  Thanks Kenneth French once again for the dataset.

Dygraphs with Bigger Data | US Industries from Kenneth French

After seeing the announcement by @lauraegerdal of the SEC’s use of dygraphs to visualize market structure, I was inspired to experiment more with the great dygraphs + rCharts.  I really wanted to see how responsive dygraphs would be with a fairly large dataset.  Some Kenneth French US Industry data seemed just big enough to get a good feel for dygraph’s digestive abilities.  See it in action here or click on the screenshot below.

Combining Eugene Fama, rCharts, dygraphs, and scholar

What better way to end the week than to dump a lot of random topics into some experiments.  Here is what happened.