Exploring the Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Market

You will explore the market capitalization of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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Project Description

To better understand the growth and impact of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies you will, in this project, explore the market capitalization of different cryptocurrencies.

Warning: The cryptocurrency market is exceptionally volatile, and any money you put in might disappear into thin air. Never invest money you can't afford to lose.

Project Tasks

1
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Full dataset, filtering, and reproducibility

2
Discard the cryptocurrencies without a market capitalization
3
How big is Bitcoin compared with the rest of the cryptocurrencies?
4
Making the plot easier to read and more informative
5
What is going on?! Volatility in cryptocurrencies
6
Well, we can already see that things are *a bit* crazy
7
Ok, those are... interesting. Let's check the weekly Series too.
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How small is small?
9
Most coins are tiny

Technologies

Python

Topics

Data Manipulation Data Visualization

Juan González-Vallinas

Director Data Science at multilayer.io

I am a scientist in the private sector. I do not like the data scientist title much though. What kind of scientist does not use data? I worked in genomics, video games and now fintech.

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