A Pandas generated animation of the effects of increasing the window size of a rolling mean

An example of rolling mean on a pandas dataframe, animated to help you see the effects.

We take the Apple closing share price for the last 40 years, and apply a rolling mean. We then animate with increasing values of the Window size for the rolling mean.

(Depending on your connection speed, this may take a few seconds to load.)

How do I run this code?

Using a recent version of python 3.x, open your terminal and enter this:

python apple_rolling_mean_anim_graph.py

The system will then create the frames and compile the animation. Your output might look like this:

MovieWriter ffmpeg unavailable; using Pillow instead.
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If all is well then you will see a new copy of the .gif image used in this README (the picture above).