Analyze financial data with Python
Course code
GEN460
Course type
BSc Course General Studies
Weekly Hours
ECTS
3,0
Term
HS 2022
Language
Englisch
Lecturers
Dr. Steffen Löv
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Course content
Thiscourseis dedicated to students who want to learn more about the analysis of financial data with python
Path Description on Codecademy
Analyze Financial Data with Python teaches you how to process, analyze, and visualize finance data. In this Skill Path, you will learn basic Python syntax along with the libraries Pandas, Pandas-Datareader and Matplotlib and apply these skills to a wide variety of financial data.
Exam
The respective course can be completed on an external platform called Codecademy. Completion requires active work on the content of the course and succesful participation in non-timed quizzes or projects which are automatically evaluated. After succesful completion of the coursework, students will receive a certificate for the course which they can upload in the Moodle-course (see course description "Recognition").
The deadline to complete the necessary coursework on the external platform is set individually for each quarter. Afterwards, WHU's accounts will be assigned to the students of the courses of the next quarter.
Requirements
Students will be registered for this course by the program administration after having completed the respective skill path on Codecademy.