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金融数据可视化
图表揭示表格所掩盖的模式；而这套实用工具箱——用于时间序列的折线图、用于分布的直方图，以及用于变量关系的散点图——只要绘制得诚实，就能服务于金融领域的每一项分析任务。
1. Why visualize at all
Why visualize at all
2. The honesty checklist
The honesty checklist
3. Reading financial pictures
Reading financial pictures
4. Visualization in the workflow
Visualization in the workflow
5. Matching chart to question
Which chart matches the analytical question correctly?
6. The truncated axis
A chart of quarterly profits shows the vertical axis running from 48 million to 52 million. What does this design do?
7. The cumulative chart's trick
Why can a cumulative return chart mislead about a strategy's risk?
8. Volatility clustering in the picture
A line chart of monthly returns shows calm stretches alternating with violent swings. What is this pattern called, and why does it matter?
9. Reading beta from a scatter
A scatter plot of a stock's returns against the market's shows a cloud tilting upward. What is the visual telling you before any regression runs?
10. The first audience for the checklist
According to the lesson, who is the first person the chart honesty checklist should be applied to?
11. The relationship chart
What one-word term names the chart that pairs two variables to expose their correlation? Answer in lowercase.
12. The distribution chart
What one-word term names the chart that bins observations to display a distribution's shape? Answer in lowercase.
13. The three-chart toolkit
What three-word phrase names the lesson's trio of workhorse charts? Answer with three words.
14. The bunched-volatility pattern
What two-word term names the tendency of large return moves to arrive in clusters? Answer in lowercase.