From the course: Advanced Python in Excel for Finance: A Hands-On Approach
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Basic Python skills for finance
From the course: Advanced Python in Excel for Finance: A Hands-On Approach
Basic Python skills for finance
- [Instructor] Let's embark on a journey to mastery by unlocking the power of Python, an essential tool in the modern financial analyst's arsenal. Our adventure starts with the basics of Python, where we look at the data types and variables, the data structures used to build, and control structures, including the conditional statements. Next, we'll explore the syntax and core concepts that make Python so versatile. With these foundational skills, you are well on your way to manipulating financial datasets. Now, we delve into Pandas, a cornerstone library for data analysis in Python. Let's manipulate a stock market dataset focusing on operations like filtering aggregation in terms serious analysis, which are vital for preparing your data for in-depth analysis. So we'll just continue with the worksheet we've been working on. So here, once you have, you still have the stock data data frame, and there are basics pandas methods that we usually call when cleaning the data. So once we…
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