BUS-F 579 Topics in Finance: Financial Data Analytics II: Scraping, Cleaning, Organizing, and Analyzing Data in Python

• 7 weeks
• 1.5 credits
• Prerequisite(s): MBA CORE

This course is the second of a two-course sequence in Financial Data Analytics. It introduces students to the analysis of real-world financial data in a variety of settings. Students will learn to apply textual analysis to large documents, identify “sentiment” in Google search data, conduct financial analysis of corporate filings and disclosures, and back-test trading strategies, to name just a few applications.