70-484 Data Science for Finance
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course first reviews the fundamentals of Financial Data Science with Python. The course then introduces several financial applications that rely heavily on data analytics, including 1 Algorithmic Trading, 2 Quantitative portfolio management, and 3 Smart beta and performance analysis. The class uses tools from statistics, machine learning and natural language processing. This course may use thirdparty course material that is not available for individual purchase from the publisher. If so, the thirdparty course material will be secured and provided by the Tepper School to students enrolled in the course, and students enrolled in the course will be required to pay to the University the associated additional course materials fee for the thirdparty course material provided. The amount of the course materials fee is dependent on the Universitys cost of the particular materials provided, and typically ranges from 13 to 75.
Prerequisites: 70-391 and (36-208 or 36-202 or 70-208)
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