Business Analytics (2nd Edition)
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780321997821
Author: James R. Evans
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3, Problem 12PE
For the Excel file Closing Stock Prices,
- Apply both column and line sparklines to visualize the trends in the prices for each of the four stocks in the file.
- Compute the daily change in the Dow Jones index and apply a win/loss sparkline to visualize the daily up or down movement in the index.
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