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17 November 2008

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Python Visualization of the Financial Crisis

i came across reginald smith’s “epidemiology” of the hold accountable moment (draft) via vitorino ramos’ chemoton blog. a picture is worth a thousand words, a movie unvarying more.by the way chemoton is very interesting, it talks about artificial intelligence, artificial life, complexity, evolutionary computation, economy, finance, swarms, etc, all topics i am interested in.reginald smith’s visualization is obtained by constructing a token spanning tree using python graph and animate using graphiz and pydot modules.data habituated to are s&p 500 and nasdaq-100 stocks, between aug 1, 2007 and october 10, 2008.the nodes are the stocks. the links are basically correlation coefficients between 2 stocks, modified to make it satisfy a distance metric. a log gala of the closing prices is taken once the correlation is calculated.color codes cast-off: green means return greater than -10%, yellow means revenue between -10% and -25%, and red means return greater than -25%. the return is the cumulative return since aug 1, 2007.here are 4 snapshots enchanted on aug 9 1007, nov 12 2007, march 14 2008 when bear stearns collapsed, and oct 10 2008 (all images from the original paper).

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smith cautions that correlation links are statistical and not causal links.it might be interesting to see a similar visualization for world financial market as the crisis has spread geographically.when the bottom is reached, we could have a visualization of the recovery process. this could be a desire wait.finally, using copulas instead of conventional correlation coefficients would be more accurate, but the computing task would be Brobdingnagian.spirituality, science & technology: http://10outof10.blogspot.com
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