This course aims at providing an introductory and broad overview of the field of ML with the focus on applications on Finance. Supervised Machine Learning methods are used in the capstone project to predict bank closures. Simultaneously, while this course can be taken as a separate course, it serves as a preview of topics that are covered in more details in subsequent modules of the specialization Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance.
Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance
Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance
This course is part of Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Finance Specialization
Instructor: Igor Halperin
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KN
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Reviewed on Jul 25, 2022
Great course. but requires lot of patience. Uses lot of unnecessary symbols and equations to explain concepts. Overall it is a good overview of the big picture of ML in finance.
KY
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Reviewed on Apr 17, 2021
Great overview. Please provide more code examples as homework require a lot more than what the class covers!
KD
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Reviewed on Aug 23, 2019
Introduction of ML for Financial application with combination of Scikit learn, Statsmodels and Tensorflow with neuralnets made this class very interesting. Learned and Enjoyed lot.
Recommended if you're interested in Data Science
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