In this finance-oriented introduction to R, you will learn essential data structures such as lists and data frames and have the chance to apply that knowledge to real-world financial examples. By the end of the course, you will be comfortable with the basics of manipulating your data to perform financial analysis in R.

Learn essential data structures such as lists and data frames and apply that knowledge directly to financial examples.

Learn the essential data structures, including lists and data frames and have the chance to apply that knowledge directly to financial examples using R.

Intro to R for Finance

Introduction to R for Finance

Time series are all around us, from server logs to high frequency financial data. Managing and manipulating ordered observations is central to all time series analysis. The xts and zoo packages provide a set of powerful tools to make this task fast and mistake free. In this course, you will learn everything from the basics of xts to advanced tips and tricks for working with time series data in R.

The xts and zoo packages make the task of managing and manipulating ordered observations fast and mistake free.

You will learn everything from the basics of working with the xts and zoo packages to advanced tips and tricks for working with time series data in R. 

Manipulating Time Series Data with xts and zoo in R

If you enjoyed the Introduction to R for Finance course, then you will love Intermediate R for Finance. Here, you will first learn the basics about how dates work in R, an important skill for the rest of the course. Your next step will be to explore the world of if statements, loops, and functions. These are powerful ideas that are essential to any financial data scientist's toolkit. Finally, we will spend some time working with the family of apply functions as a vectorized alternative to loops. And of course, all examples will be finance related! Enjoy!

Learn about how dates work in R, and explore the world of if statements, loops, and functions using financial examples.

Learn about how dates work in R, and explore the world of if statements, loops, and functions. You'll practice this knowledge using financial examples.

Intermediate R for Finance

Many phenomena in our day-to-day lives, such as the movement of stock prices, are measured in intervals over a period of time. Time series analysis methods are extremely useful for analyzing these special data types. In this course, you will be introduced to some core time series analysis concepts and techniques.

Learn the core techniques necessary to extract meaningful insights from time series data.

Learn the core techniques necessary to extract meaningful insights from time series data, including WN and RW models, correlation analysis, and more. 

Time Series Analysis in R

A golden rule in investing is to always test the portfolio strategy on historical data, and, once you are trading the strategy, to constantly monitor its performance. In this course, you will learn this by critically analyzing portfolio returns using the package PerformanceAnalytics. The course also shows how to estimate the portfolio weights that optimally balance risk and return. This is a data-driven course that combines portfolio theory with the practice in R, illustrated on real-life examples of equity portfolios and asset allocation problems. If you'd like to continue exploring the data after you've finished this course, the data used in the first three chapters can be obtained using the tseries-package. The code to get them can be found <a href='http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/course/portfolio-analysis/data_portfolio_analysis.R' target='_blank'>here</a>. The data used in chapter 4 can be downloaded <a href='http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/course/portfolio-analysis/prices.rds' target='_blank'>here</a>.

Apply your finance and R skills to backtest, analyze, and optimize financial portfolios.

Apply your R skills to backtest, analyze, and optimize financial portfolios. The course also shows how to estimate the weights that optimize risk and return.

Introduction to Portfolio Analysis in R

Forecasting involves making predictions about the future. It is required in many situations: deciding whether to build another power generation plant in the next ten years requires forecasts of future demand; scheduling staff in a call centre next week requires forecasts of call volumes; stocking an inventory requires forecasts of stock requirements. Forecasts can be required several years in advance (for the case of capital investments), or only a few minutes beforehand (for telecommunication routing). Whatever the circumstances or time horizons involved, forecasting is an important aid to effective and efficient planning. This course provides an introduction to time series forecasting using R.

Learn how to make predictions about the future using time series forecasting in R.

Make predictions about the future using time series forecasting in R. You will learn how to plot data, observe patterns, benchmark, forecast, and more.

Forecasting in R

This course builds on the fundamental concepts from Introduction to Portfolio Analysis in R and explores advanced concepts in the portfolio optimization process. It is critical for an analyst or portfolio manager to understand all aspects of the portfolio optimization problem to make informed decisions. In this course, you will learn a quantitative approach to apply the principles of modern portfolio theory to specify a portfolio, define constraints and objectives, solve the problem, and analyze the results. This course will use the R package PortfolioAnalytics to solve portfolio optimization problems with complex constraints and objectives that mirror real world problems.

Advance you R finance skills to backtest, analyze, and optimize financial portfolios.

Learn to apply the principles of modern portfolio theory to specify a portfolio, define constraints and objectives, solve the problem, and analyze results.

Portfolio Analysis in R 

Intermediate Portfolio Analysis in R

This hands-on-course with real-life credit data will teach you how to model credit risk by using logistic regression and decision trees in R.Modeling credit risk for both personal and company loans is of major importance for banks. The probability that a debtor will default is a key component in getting to a measure for credit risk. While other models will be introduced in this course as well, you will learn about two model types that are often used in the credit scoring context; logistic regression and decision trees. You will learn how to use them in this particular context, and how these models are evaluated by banks.

Apply statistical modeling in a real-life setting using logistic regression and decision trees to model credit risk.

Learn to create models to evaluate financial credit risk like a professional

Credit Risk Modeling in R

In this course, you will become an expert in fitting ARIMA models to time series data using R.  First, you will explore the nature of time series data using the tools in the R stats package.  Next, you learn how to fit various ARMA models to simulated data (where you will know the correct model) using the R package astsa.  Once you have mastered the basics, you will learn how to fit integrated ARMA models, or ARIMA models to various real data sets. You will learn how to check the validity of an ARIMA model and you will learn how to forecast time series data.  Finally, you will learn how to fit ARIMA models to seasonal data, including forecasting using the astsa package.

Become an expert in fitting ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) models to time series data using R.

In this course, you will become an expert in fitting ARIMA models to time series data using R, from fitting to simulated data and seasonal data to using astsa.

ARIMA Models in R

In Quantitative Risk Management (QRM), you will build models to understand the risks of financial portfolios. This is a vital task across the banking, insurance and asset management industries. The first step in the model building process is to collect data on the underlying risk factors that affect portfolio value and analyze their behavior. In this course, you will learn how to work with risk-factor return series, study the empirical properties or so-called "stylized facts" of these data - including their typical non-normality and volatility, and make estimates of value-at-risk for a portfolio.

Work with risk-factor return series, study their empirical properties, and make estimates of value-at-risk. 

In this course, you will work with risk-factor return series, study their empirical properties, and make estimates of value-at-risk for a portfolio.

Quantitative Risk Management in R

If you've ever done anything with financial or economic time series, you know the data come in various shapes, sizes, and periodicities. Getting the data into R can be stressful and time-consuming, especially when you need to merge data from several different sources into one data set. This course will cover importing data from local files as well as from internet sources.

Learn how to access financial data from local files as well as from internet sources.

Learn how to import and manage different financial or economic time series data into R from different sources, including local files and the internet.

Importing and Managing Financial Data in R

In this course, you will strengthen your knowledge of time series topics through interactive exercises and interesting datasets. You’ll explore a variety of datasets about Boston, including data on flights, weather, economic trends, and local sports teams.

Strengthen your knowledge of the topics covered in Manipulating Time Series in R using real case study data.

Strengthen your knowledge of the topics covered in Manipulating Time Series in R with xts and zoo using real case study data.

Case Studies: Manipulating Time Series Data in R

As the saying goes, “A chart is worth a thousand words”. This is why visualization is the most used and powerful way to get a better understanding of your data. After this course you will have a very good overview of R time series visualisation capabilities and you will be able to better decide which model to choose for subsequent analysis. You will be able to also convey the message you want to deliver in an efficient and beautiful way.

Learn how to visualize time series in R, then practice with a stock-picking case study.

Visualizing Time Series Data in R

After this course on quantitative finance with R, you will be able to use R to develop a model to value a fixed interest rate bond, estimate and analyze a bond's yield (i.e., a measure of the opportunity cost of bond investors), and model techniques used to protect bond portfolios from changes in interest rates. Why value bonds? Bonds are securities issued by governments or corporations that pay interest over a fixed schedule and are the most well-known type of fixed income securities. The US fixed income market is 1.5x larger than the US stock market, but, unlike stocks, most fixed income instruments, including bonds, trade very infrequently. Consequently, a bond's price may be a less reliable indicator of its value and analytical techniques are necessary when analyzing and valuing bonds.

Learn to use R to develop models to evaluate and analyze bonds as well as protect them from interest rate changes.

Bond Valuation and Analysis in R

This course will cover the basics on financial trading and will give you an overview of how to use quantstrat to build signal-based trading strategies in R. It will teach you how to set up a quantstrat strategy, apply transformations of market data called indicators, create signals based on the interactions of those indicators, and even simulate orders. Lastly, it will explain how to analyze your results both from statistical and visual perspectives.

This course covers the basics of financial trading and how to use quantstrat to build signal-based trading strategies.

This course covers the basics of financial trading and how to use quantstrat to build signal-based trading strategies in R and even simulate orders.

Financial Trading in R

In finance, quantitative analysts ensure portfolios are risk balanced, help find new trading opportunities, and evaluate asset prices using mathematical models.

Ensure portfolios are risk balanced, help find new trading opportunities, and evaluate asset prices using mathematical models.

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Quantitative Analyst

Python is a general-purpose programming language that is becoming ever more popular for data science. Companies worldwide are using Python to harvest insights from their data and gain a competitive edge. Unlike other Python tutorials, this course focuses on Python specifically for data science. In our Introduction to Python course, you’ll learn about powerful ways to store and manipulate data, and helpful data science tools to begin conducting your own analyses. Start DataCamp’s online Python curriculum now.

Master the basics of data analysis in Python. Expand your skillset by learning scientific computing with NumPy.

Discover how to use Python for data science, learning about the ways to store and manipulate data in the environment to begin conducting your own analyses.

Introduction to Python

The role of a data scientist is to turn raw data into actionable insights. Much of the world's raw data—from electronic medical records to customer transaction histories—lives in organized collections of tables called relational databases. To be an effective data scientist, you must know how to wrangle and extract data from these databases using a language called SQL . This course teaches syntax in SQL shared by many types of databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle. This course teaches you everything you need to know to begin working with databases today!

Master the basics of querying tables in relational databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Learn the basics of syntax in SQL, how to extract and wrangle data, and use querying tables in relational databases like MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Introduction to SQL

This is an introduction to the programming language R, focused on a powerful set of tools known as the Tidyverse. You'll learn the intertwined processes of data manipulation and visualization using the tools dplyr and ggplot2. You'll learn to manipulate data by filtering, sorting, and summarizing a real dataset of historical country data in order to answer exploratory questions. You'll then learn to turn this processed data into informative line plots, bar plots, histograms, and more with the ggplot2 package. You’ll get a taste of the value of exploratory data analysis and the power of Tidyverse tools. This is a suitable introduction for those who have no previous experience in R and are interested in performing data analysis.

Get started on the path to exploring and visualizing your own data with the tidyverse, a powerful and popular collection of data science tools within R.

Discover the fundamentals of the Tidyverse, and learn all about renaming and reordering variables, while becoming familiar with binomial distribution.

Introduction to the Tidyverse

Once you've started learning tools for building interactive web applications with shiny, this course will translate this knowledge into building dashboards. Dashboards, a common data science deliverable, are pages that collate information, often tracking metrics from a live-updating data source. You'll gain more expertise using shiny while learning to build and design these dynamic dashboards. In the process, you'll pick up tips to optimize performance as well as best practices to create a visually appealing product.

In this course you'll learn to build dashboards using the shinydashboard package.

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