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Bitcoin Nexus

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Background and Overview

Bitcoin has had a meteoric rise in media coverage over the last year as well as record breaking increases in value that has never before been seen in modern-day finance. Why is that? What caused it? The bitcoin nexus will provide a time series chart that follows bitcoins price. Users will be able to click on specific moments in time that had significant influence into the changes in bitcoin price.

Functionality & MVP

  • Provide a time series chart of bitcoin prices
  • Be able to click on a highlight bubble that will show articles that could explain major causes of price fluctuation
  • Thumbnails of the articles will display
  • Clicking on the thumbnail will open a new tab for the user

Wireframes

Architecture and Technologies

This project will be implemented with the following technologies:

  • D3.js for the time series interactive chart
  • coindesk API will be used to pull bitcoin index pricing
  • anime.js will be used for thumbnail animations
  • Webpack to bundle and serve the various scripts.

Implementation Timeline

Day 1 Setup all necessary Node modules including webpack and package.json. Display pricing data in D3. Goals for the day:

  • Get webpack serving files and frame out index.html
  • Pull data pricing information from coindesk API and save to a CSV
  • Display the pricing information in a D3 chart

Day 2 Add the highlight bubbles to the chart

  • Display highlight bubbles in the chart to designate significant moments in time
  • Manually compile news information that will be showed in these highlight bubbles

Day 3 Complete time scale chart

  • Complete implementation of time scale chart

Day 4 Make sure the thumbnails show up in a visually pleasing way

  • Animate thumbnails
  • Put final aesthetic touches on finished webpage

Bonus features

  • Create a Node.js backend to house indexes and keywords
  • Create your own webpage crawler to search specific cryptocurrency sites for news to display for every date in the timeline
  • Develop a better algorithm to show choose which news articles to display
  • Setup the coindesk API for real time updating of price
  • Integrate the reddit API to provide articles for every date (filtering will be done with javascript)