*These banks have used one or both of PyFi’s self-study courses to introduce their financiers to Python programming and its application in the world of finance.
Why is Python important in Finance?
Financial Reporting
Credit Risk Reporting
Port Company Performance
Python scripts integrate SAP Analytics Cloud with Tableau by leveraging the SAP Analytics Cloud OData API. Python fetches real-time financial data, cleans it, and sends it to Tableau for visualization. This integration reduces reporting cycle time by an estimated 40% while ensuring accurate and up-to-date dashboards.
Extract financial and bond data from Bloomberg and automatically calculate key financial ratios like debt-to-equity and interest coverage. Machine learning models predict default probabilities. The models are validated for accuracy and risk scores and probability metrics are exported to Excel for presentation. Save approximately 15 hours while improving the accuracy of your forecasts by 25% with this Python integration.
Python automates the consolidation of financial data from portfolio companies, reducing manual aggregation and saving approximately 6 hours per month. IT streamlines KPI calculations, eliminating Excel formula errors and improves accuracy by 30%. Automated benchmarking and real-time alerts highlight underperformers, cutting approx. 4 hours of manual comparisons. Dynamic dashboards in Tableau replace static Excel chats, saving an additional 3 hours per month. Overall, this integration saves 13 hours monthly and improves accuracy by 30%.
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How does the Applied Machine Learning course work?
Prepare Your Data
If you want a great machine learning algorithm, you need great training data. Correct errors, eliminate sparse classes, and remove unwanted observations to provide your algorithm premium fuel.
Build Your Piplines
Model pipelines tell your algorithm how to process your data. Construct pipelines that standardize your data to a common scale, define competing model classes, and specify random states.
Train & Tune Your Algorithm
Optimizing your machine learning algorithm is like tuning a race car. Train competing models and tune your hyperparameters using cross-validation to maintain the integrity of your testing data.
Select the Winning Model
Your algorithm competes against itself to produce optimal results. After training and tuning your models, you can select the winning model and use it to make superior predictions.
Completion Certificates
After completing each course and passing the certification exam, students will be granted a PyFi Certification for that specific course. Use these certificates as a signal to employers that you have the technical skills to immediately add value to your team.
Learn the same machine learning algorithms that were used to advise the following companies:
*Slight changes to the code made to protect IP
Meet Zach Washam,
PyFi Founder & Head of Instruction
While learning Python as an investment banker, Zach made an interesting observation: Python programming had a lot in common with the Excel models he made at work. By thinking of Python like Excel, Zach quickly learned the coding language and invented Wells Fargo Securities' first machine learning algorithm for investment banking and capital markets.
After submitting two algorithms for patent protection and winning Wells Fargo's 2018 "Local Sphere Innovation Award," Zach left investment banking to launch PyFi.
Now, Zach’s courses have been delivered to thousands of finance students and professionals around the world.
*These banks have used one or both of PyFi’s self-study courses to introduce their financiers to Python programming and its application in the world of finance.
How Can We Help You?
What makes PyFi courses unique?
If you're looking to learn general Python this might not be the right class for you.
But if you'd rather understand how Python can be used in the world of finance, instead of building some irrelevant game, and if you'd like to learn the skills needed to build your own tools, then you're in the right place.
PyFi is built specifically for professionals in the world of finance and teaches you by relating concepts to excel so that you can learn faster and retain more of what you learn.
How long does it take to complete a Applied Machine Learning?
Applied Machine Learning is approximately 3.5 hours in length. A student can generally complete the course in 6-10 hours when working through all of the exercises. Your enrollment comes with lifetime access and support within the course via a comment section under each video lesson.
How will learning Python help my finance career?
Firms are in the business of making profit, whether thats a bank, a fund, a corporation, etc. They hire you based on your ability to provide disproportionate value to them and their goals, a value that exceeds the cost of your salary. As technology changes, the level of demand of employee output continues to rise. In a pool of many talented candidates, having a competitive advantage that can make you more efficient and effective in your workflows and can make your predictive models more accurate means the value you are able to provide to your firm will be significantly greater than your contemporaries. Python is a competitive advantage in finance. In fact, more and more positions are preferring or requiring this skill to even be considered for the role in the first place.
What if I don't like the course?
PyFi offers a no questions asked, 30 day money-back guarantee. If you aren't completely satisfied with the course, send us an email and we will refund your money up to one month after you enroll.
How can we afford to do this? Because fewer than 1% of our customers ask for refunds. PyFi provides the best Python training on the market, and we know you are going to love it.
Do I need to work from a specific OS?
No. You can work through PyFi content from any OS.
Whats included in "Applied Machine Learning?"
Applied Machine Learning is a stand alone course. You will receive access to our "LMS" system where you will access the Jupyter Notebook files you'll be working through. You will also receive instructor support via the comment section of each video lesson.
Do I need to understand investing and portfolios to take the courses?
The finance specific topics that are discussed in the courses can be picked up as you work through each topic.
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