Big Data & Dealing with Data in Finance

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This course will help you learn how to program so that they can effectively retrieve, store, manipulate, and visualize data. You will develop practical programming and data manipulation skills using Python. Python is a beginner-friendly programming language that is widely used in industry. In recent years, it has also become the de facto standard in data science. The courses focuses on practical tasks when dealing with data using Numpy and Pandas; obtaining data from online sources via APIs and web scraping; plotting using Matplotlib, and writing and reading data to/from files (CSV and Excel files). The course teaches you how to manipulate and analyze financial data in Python using professional tools. While no prior programming/Python experience is assumed, it does involve coding.