Visualize the long-term oil price trend
In the previous video, you learned how to retrieve data from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) portal.
Here, you will use this new data source to visualize the oil price trend over the last 50 years, specifically, the Spot Crude Oil Price: West Texas Intermediate (WTI). DataReader, date, pandas as pd, and matplotlib.pyplot as plt have been imported.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Importing and Managing Financial Data in Python
Instruções do exercício
- Use
date()to setstartto January 1, 1968, and setseriesto series code'WTISPLC'. - Pass
seriesas the data,'fred'as the data source, andstartas the start date toDataReader(). Assign tooil_price. - Inspect
oil_priceusing.info(). - Plot and show the
oil_priceseries with title'Oil Price'.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Set start date
start = ____
# Set series code
series = 'WTISPLC'
# Import the data
oil_price = DataReader(____, ____, start=____)
# Inspect the price of oil
oil_price.info()
# Plot the price of oil
____
# Show the plot
plt.show()