a real-time application that visualizes historical tick data from the TAQ database, an extremely large, multi-dimensional dataset containing every public trade for a specific asset. the application displays second-by-second ticks for multiple assets faster than real-time, as a navigable, fully 3D trading environment.

the X-axis denotes time in seconds, the Y-axis (or the width of the ribbon) is a logarithmic scale of the volume, the Z-axis shows price, while the color of the ribbon represents the tick-by-tick price change.

see also stock market spheres & light sculpture & ticker garden & skirt & money map & planetarium.

[link: lineplot.com & lineplot.com (movie) lineplot.com (thesis PDF)]