Stock Comparer

Be able to compare several stocks at once

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Inspiration

PC Part Picker and other places that allow you to compare two or more products

What it does

It allows you to pick stocks and compare their data from over the years

How we built it

Front End: build a HTML5 website that displayed several stocks on a graph. Front end also made a search bar that allows the user to search for certain stocks Back End: using MarktetStack, Back end was able to get all the stock data for 1000's of stocks, The Front end webpage requests certain stocks based off their Symbol and Back end finds that stock's data based of its symbol and pushes the file to front end. Front end then uses the data in the file to populate the webpage.

Challenges we ran into

We originally wanted to use a Database for this but realized that using a database for this much data is very challenging, given the time restraint. Back end ran into the majority of challenges mainly dealing with the database, they were having trouble uploading and pulling CSV files. We also struggled getting it to transfer to a website that is hosted. We ended up using github.io to host the website.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that what we used with APIs and with the graph was learned during the 24 hour time span of the event. We are proud of the work that everyone was able to do and our ability to work as a team to finish the project as efficiently as possible.

What we learned

We learned that Databases can be tricky but powerful. We also learned a lot about APIs and how they worked. As a team we learned how important it is to properly plan ahead and try to for see as many problems as possible.

What's next for Stock Comparer

Hopefully we will be able to expand the front end to include more stocks and make what we currently have cleaner and more appealing. We also have floated the idea by of getting an AI to learn patterns from looking at the graphs from the website

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