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An orderbook is an electronic list that collects all the buy and sell orders of a specific security or financial instrument to gauge market interest. Historically these are held in a 2D form via lists or graphs to demonstrate price levels and total quantities. There are many ways to visualize this in 2D such as: 
There are other ways to visualize this, another popular option is to use a depth chart, where you can plot price vs quantity in a graph format to easily identify liquidity and interest for each instrument without having to look as carefully, which can be seen below. 
There are other ways to visualize this, another popular option is to use a depth chart, where you can plot price vs quantity in a graph format to easily identify liquidity and interest for each instrument without having to look as carefully, which can be seen below.
However, with any visualization of the orderbook in 2 dimensions, it is hard to grasp how liquidity of an orderbook changes over **time**. The goal of this project was to add this crucial component in instrument visualization by creating and representing an orderbook into the 3D space. We can accomplish this by using the [KrakenAPI](https://www.kraken.com/features/api-trading) and its cryptocurrency exchange to retrieve market data and the [three.js](https://threejs.org/) library to create 3D visuals for our orderbook.
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**Justin Kim (jwk8@illinois.edu)**
- Hello my name is Justin Kim, a Junior Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am interested in AI/ML and Quantitative Finance and I have taken courses in Machine Learning, Algorithms, Computer Systems, etc. In my free time, I like to play video games with friends.
- My LinkedIn is located here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-kim-23355a223/
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- My LinkedIn is located here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-kim-23355a223/
