Spring 2027

Data Analytics for Finance

Hands-on data analytics for finance using Python, covering forecasting, prediction, reporting, and analysis through progressively complex financial applications.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.63 GPA, 69.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamentals of programming and how those fundamentals are implemented in Python

  • Download, organize, and manipulate data to prepare them for Finance applications

  • Visualize and organize Financial Data for the purpose of creating effective presentations

  • Apply these programming skills in the context of standard financial applications such as asset pricing model estimation, Monte Carlo simulations for capital budgeting purposes, portfolio optimization, and financial analysis and forecasting

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ECON/​FINANCE 300

FINANCE 310

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.63 GPA, 69.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Advanced analytics methods for forecasting and prediction
  • Python programming for finance
  • Asset pricing, Monte Carlo simulation, portfolio optimization, and financial analysis

Skills

  • Programming fundamentals in Python
  • Data preparation for finance applications
  • Financial data visualization and presentation
  • Asset pricing, Monte Carlo simulation, portfolio optimization, and forecasting

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