
Explore Python and machine learning for financial analysis, from fundamentals and financial analysis to portfolio optimization and AI applications like stock price predictions and sentiment analysis.
Set up your Google account and Google Colab to access the Udemy course package, notebooks, and data for the Python and machine learning for financial analysis course via Google Drive.
Explore how to use Google Colab to write Python code in code cells, add text cells, run and share notebooks, and enable GPUs or TPUs for ML workflows.
Learn Python programming fundamentals in a practical, beginner-friendly style, covering conditionals, loops, functions, files, lambda expressions, mini challenges, and key libraries like NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly.
Learn basic math operations in Python by manipulating stock data with variables, including incrementing values, computing portfolio value, and calculating returns using multiplication and division.
Master printing in Python by using the print function to display strings, define strings with quotes, and format messages with placeholders to show shares, company names, and tickers.
Booleans introduce true and false in Python, showing how to use boolean comparisons and conditional statements with stock prices, including equals and not equals.
Learn how lists in Python work by defining, indexing (zero-based and negative), slicing, and accessing nested lists with practical financial examples.
Explore sets in Python as unordered collections of unique items, learn how to create them with curly braces, avoid duplicates, and convert lists to sets to remove duplicates.
Explore comparison operators, logical operators, and conditional statements in Python, learning boolean outputs, equality versus assignment, and string comparisons through practical stock price examples.
Learn how logical operators in python combine boolean conditions using and and or, review true and false outcomes, and connect them to comparison operators with practical examples.
Master conditional statements in Python, using if else and elif with indentation to control code paths and boolean outcomes. Explore input, access logic, and or operators.
Master conditional statements in Python by implementing if, elif, and else, solving mini challenges on positive/negative numbers, divisibility by three without multiples of seven, and even-or-odd checks.
Learn how to use for loops to iterate over lists and strings, and master range, while loops, break, nested loops, and list comprehension with hands-on coding.
Master Python range operations for loops, including start, stop, step, and reversing ranges, and apply them to print even numbers and a table of x, x^2, x^3.
Learn to break and continue loops with for and while statements, using stock examples and odd-number printing, plus a live input averaging challenge that ends when E is entered.
Learn the basics of Python built-in functions, including lists, ranges, length, min, max, and sum, plus converting between lists and tuples. Learn how to define and call functions.
Learn how lambda functions create unnamed Python functions with a single expression. Use them for operations like squaring and summing, and preview map and filter.
Learn to read and analyze csv files with python using the csv module and pandas. Extract headers, rows, and key data like names and dollar values from sample datasets.
Master numpy array creation, inspection, and reshaping from lists to arrays. Learn to extract shape, length, and data type, and locate maxima, minima, and mean with argmax and argmin.
Learn pandas basics and data frames, treating pandas as excel in Python, and master series, CSV and HTML data import, row selection, merging, functions, sorting, and concatenation.
Learn to use pandas for reading csv and html data and to perform tabular data manipulations. Read csv data from drive, and export results to csv.
Learn how to concatenate and merge pandas dataframes using pd.concat and pd.merge to combine bank client data with salary information through practical examples.
Are you ready to learn python programming fundamentals and directly apply them to solve real world applications in Finance and Banking?
If the answer is yes, then welcome to the “The Complete Python and Machine Learning for Financial Analysis” course in which you will learn everything you need to develop practical real-world finance/banking applications in Python!
So why Python?
Python is ranked as the number one programming language to learn in 2020, here are 6 reasons you need to learn Python right now!
1. #1 language for AI & Machine Learning: Python is the #1 programming language for machine learning and artificial intelligence.
2. Easy to learn: Python is one of the easiest programming language to learn especially of you have not done any coding in the past.
3. Jobs: high demand and low supply of python developers make it the ideal programming language to learn now.
4. High salary: Average salary of Python programmers in the US is around $116 thousand dollars a year.
5. Scalability: Python is extremely powerful and scalable and therefore real-world apps such as Google, Instagram, YouTube, and Spotify are all built on Python.
6. Versatility: Python is the most versatile programming language in the world, you can use it for data science, financial analysis, machine learning, computer vision, data analysis and visualization, web development, gaming and robotics applications.
This course is unique in many ways:
1. The course is divided into 3 main parts covering python programming fundamentals, financial analysis in Python and AI/ML application in Finance/Banking Industry. A detailed overview is shown below:
a) Part #1 – Python Programming Fundamentals: Beginner’s Python programming fundamentals covering concepts such as: data types, variables assignments, loops, conditional statements, functions, and Files operations. In addition, this section will cover key Python libraries for data science such as Numpy and Pandas. Furthermore, this section covers data visualization tools such as Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, and Bokeh.
b) Part #2 – Financial Analysis in Python: This part covers Python for financial analysis. We will cover key financial concepts such as calculating daily portfolio returns, risk and Sharpe ratio. In addition, we will cover Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Markowitz portfolio optimization, and efficient frontier. We will also cover trading strategies such as momentum-based and moving average trading.
c) Part #3 – AI/Ml in Finance/Banking: This section covers practical projects on AI/ML applications in Finance. We will cover application of Deep Neural Networks such as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks to perform stock price predictions. In addition, we will cover unsupervised machine learning strategies such as K-Means Clustering and Principal Components Analysis to perform Baking Customer Segmentation or Clustering. Furthermore, we will cover the basics of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and apply it to perform stocks sentiment analysis.
2. There are several mini challenges and exercises throughout the course and you will learn by doing. The course contains mini challenges and coding exercises in almost every video so you will learn in a practical and easy way.
3. The Project-based learning approach: you will build more than 6 full practical projects that you can add to your portfolio of projects to showcase your future employer during job interviews.
So who is this course for?
This course is geared towards the following:
Financial analysts who want to harness the power of Data science and AI to optimize business processes, maximize revenue, reduce costs.
Python programmer beginners and data scientists wanting to gain a fundamental understanding of Python and Data Science applications in Finance/Banking sectors.
Investment bankers and financial analysts wanting to advance their careers, build their data science portfolio, and gain real-world practical experience.
There is no prior experience required, Even if you have never used python or any programming language before, don’t worry! You will have a clear video explanation for each of the topics we will be covering. We will start from the basics and gradually build up your knowledge.
In this course, (1) you will have a true practical project-based learning experience, we will build more than 6 projects together (2) You will have access to all the codes and slides, (3) You will get a certificate of completion that you can post on your LinkedIn profile to showcase your skills in python programming to employers. (4) All of this comes with a 30 day money back guarantee so you can give a course a try risk free! Check out the preview videos and the outline to get an idea of the projects we will be covering.
Enroll today and I look forward to seeing you inside!