Carnegie Mellon University

Financial Data Science II

Course Number: 46923

Concentration: Statistics / Data Science
Semester(s): Mini 2
Required/Elective: Required
Prerequisite(s): 46921

The second in a two-course sequence covering methods of extracting useful information from raw financial data. Focus is placed on tools of data exploration and mining, motivated by the handling of modern financial data sets. Topics include data cleaning, data visualization, dimension reduction, clustering, Bayesian methods, and making discovery claims.