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LAB 4:
Lab Exercises:
Data mining is the process of sorting through large amounts of data
and picking
out relevant information. Typically used by everyone from financial
analysts
to scienstists, data mining is used to extract information from the
enormous data sets.
These large data sets and the trend of analyzing them has come to be
known as "Big Data"
For this lab, you will be required to do some data mining of the
prices of
Apple stock from 10/07/2011 to 10/06/2021 (consisting of 2516
records). Your
program will report facts about the monthly highs, lows, averages,
etc for this
data.
A file of Apple's daily stock's prices (file name is: aaplStock.csv)
will be
supplied for you and must be located in the same directory as your
Python program.
This file is comma-delimited and consists of records in the
following format:
Date,Close/Last,Volume,Open,High,Low
10/06/2021,$142,83221120,$139.47,$142.15,$138.37
NOTE: The first record in the file, will ALWAYS contain the title
with
headings and does not count as an actual record!
Question #1
Write the code for a Python function called getRecord that accepts
the
name of the file to read and a date in the form: mm/dd/yyyy.