Am trying to make a graph in vegalite whereby i show the evolution of stock prices overtime. Intuitively this should be very easy however for some reason only two lines seem to get output and they aren't reflective of the stock prices at all. Is there something wrong with my data or am i missing something quite basic?
{"$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v5.json",
"title": {
"text": "Cases: UK nations",
"subtitle": [
"New cases by publish date, rolling rate"
],
"subtitleFontStyle": "italic",
"subtitleFontSize": 10,
"anchor": "start",
"color": "black"
},
"background": "whitesmoke",
"width": 800,
"height": 600,
"data": {
"url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrewsnowdon/andrewsnowdon.github.io/main/graph1megasheet.csv",
"format": {"type": "csv"}},
"layer": [
{
"encoding": {
"x": {"field": "Date", "type": "temporal"},
"y": {"field": "Open", "type": "quantitative"},
"color": {
"field":"Stockname",
"type": "nominal"
}
},
"layer": [
{"mark": "line"},
{
"params": [
{
"name": "label",
"select": {
"type": "point",
"encodings": ["x"],
"nearest": true,
"on": "mouseover"
}
}
],
"mark": "point",
"encoding": {
"opacity": {
"condition": {"param": "label", "empty": false, "value": 1},
"value": 0
}
}
}
]
},
{
"transform": [{"filter": {"param": "label", "empty": true}}],
"layer": [
{
"mark": {"type": "rule", "color": "grey"},
"encoding": {
"x": {"type": "temporal", "field": "Date", "aggregate": "min"}
}
},
{
"encoding": {
"text": {"type": "quantitative", "field": "Open"},
"x": {"type": "temporal", "field": "Date", "title": "Month"},
"y": {
"type": "quantitative",
"field": "Open",
"title": "Price"
}
},
"layer": [
{
"mark": {
"type": "text",
"stroke": "white",
"strokeWidth": 0.5,
"align": "left",
"dx": 5,
"dy": -5
}
},
{
"mark": {"type": "text", "align": "left", "dx": 5, "dy": -5},
"encoding": {"color": {"type": "quantitative"}}
}
]
}
]
}
],
"config": {}
}
Four of your stocks have identical data, so the lines are hidden below the last one drawn. You can see this by faceting your dataset:
{
"data": {
"url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrewsnowdon/andrewsnowdon.github.io/main/graph1megasheet.csv",
"format": {"type": "csv", "parse": {"Date": "date:'%d/%m/%Y'"}}
},
"mark": "line",
"encoding": {
"x": {"field": "Date", "type": "temporal"},
"y": {"field": "Open", "type": "quantitative"},
"facet": {"field": "Stockname", "type": "nominal", "columns": 3}
}
}
Notice the parse
argument to the data format; this is required for correct parsing of your date entries (as mentioned in https://stackoverflow.com/a/70658380/2937831).