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MVC Technical Workshop: Python for Finance II

July 27, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

This two-part (6 hour) workshop, over two days, introduces the Python programming language with applications in Finance.  The first part of the workshop covers data types and structures, reading data files, functional programming, data exploration and visualization using the base Python library and open-source packages.  During the second part of the workshop, these skills are applied to various topics in applied finance including financial time series analysis, simulation, value-at-risk, portfolio optimization, derivative pricing, and credit modeling.  Each part will be three hours.

The workshops will consist of presentations by the instructors and hands-on exercises to be completed by the workshop participants. Participants are expected to program on their own computers with their Python installation using the instructions provided prior to the workshop.  Notebooks and example data files will be used for presentation and distributed during the workshop.

Details

Date:
July 27, 2020
Time:
8:00 am - 12:00 pm