Re: Time Series Data in Quarters
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- Subject: [mg112180] Re: Time Series Data in Quarters
- From: Michael Stern <nycstern at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 03:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
It should be easy to replace the quarterly date stamp with something Mathematica will recognize, but I can't provide sample code without knowing precisely what you are starting with.
For example,
startingData=={{"2009q1",1},{"2009q2",2},{"2009q3",2.2}};
datifier[malformedThing_] :== \
{{ToExpression[StringJoin[Take[Characters[malformedThing[[
1]]], 4]]], Switch[Cchaharacters[malformedThing[[1]]][[6]], "1", 3,"2", \
6, "3", 9, "4", 12], Switch[Characters[
malformedThing[[
1]]][[6]], "1", 31, "2", 31, "3", 30, "4", 31]}, malformedThing[[2]]}
cleanedUpData==Map[datifier[#] &, startingData];
DateListPlot[cleanedUpData]
Michael
On Sep 3, 2010, at 6:08 AM, jroge wrote:
> I just received some financial data that I would like to analyze,
> however the data is by fiscal quarter. DateListPlot seems to require
> specific dates for plotting, rather than an option that is more
> abstract such as Q1, 2007. Any suggestions?
>