Importing and Managing Financial Data in Python

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Course overview

Provider
Datacamp
Course type
Free trial availiable
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
5 hours
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Stefan Jansen

Description

In this course, you'll learn how to import and manage financial data in Python using various tools and sources.
If you want to apply your new 'Python for Data Science' skills to real-world financial data, then this course will give you some very valuable tools. First, you will learn how to get data out of Excel into pandas and back. Then, you will learn how to pull stock prices from various online APIs like Google or Yahoo! Finance, macro data from the Federal Reserve, and exchange rates from OANDA. Finally, you will learn how to calculate returns for various time horizons, analyze stock performance by sector for IPOs, and calculate and summarize correlations.

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