About This BookA single source for learning how to use the features of pandas for financial and quantitative analysis.Explains many of the financial concepts including market risk, options valuation, futures calculation, and algorithmic trading strategies.Step-by-step demonstration with interactive and incremental examples to apply pandas to financeWho This Book Is ForIf you are interested in quantitative finance, financial modeling, and trading, or simply want to learn how Python and pandas can be applied to finance, then this book is ideal for you. Some knowledge of Python and pandas is assumed. Interest in financial concepts is helpful, but no prior knowledge is expected.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Heydt
EAN: 9781783985104
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 93 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Packt Publishing Limited
DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-05-25
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GENRE: COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Accounting & Finance
WIDTH: 75 cm
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Enterprise software
Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, educator, and trainer with nearly 30 years of professional software development experience, during which time, he focused on Agile software design and implementation using advanced technologies in multiple verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. He holds an MS degree in mathematics and computer science from Drexel University and an executive master's of technology management degree from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Wharton Business School. His studies and research have focused on technology management, software engineering, entrepreneurship, information retrieval, data sciences, and computational finance. Since 2005, he has specialized in building energy and financial trading systems for major investment banks on Wall Street and for several global energy-trading companies, utilizing .NET, C#, WPF, TPL, DataFlow, Python, R, Mono, iOS, and Android. His current interests include creating seamless applications using desktop, mobile, and wearable technologies, which utilize high-concurrency, high-availability, and real-time data analytics; augmented and virtual reality; cloud services; messaging; computer vision; natural user interfaces; and software-defined networks. He is the author of numerous technology articles, papers, and books. He is a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile and cloud conferences, and he regularly delivers webinars and conducts training courses on emerging and advanced technologies. To know more about Michael, visit his website at http://bseamless.com/.
