Data Science for Investment Professionals Certificate

Are you ready for the machine learning revolution? The Data Science for Investment Professionals Certificate provides you with practical knowledge of data techniques and machine learning fundamentals and how they are used in the investment process. This certificate is designed to enable you to apply machine learning concepts to real-world investment problems and explain them clearly to a non-expert audience and clients. You will have the opportunity to gain practical experience through immersive code labs that draw on real-world scenarios.

The certificate is composed of five courses with practical application exercises and one final assessment.

How it works

Take each of the six courses, with assessments and activities along the way, to guide and ensure your understanding. Then take the final assessment to earn the Investment Foundations Certificate and digital badge.

Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required for this certificate.

What You’ll Learn

Upon completion of this certificate you will be able to:

• Describe and evaluate machine learning techniques
• Select and develop data visualizations using Python
• Apply machine learning to address investment problems
• Explain machine learning techniques to a non-expert audience
• Use natural language processing to make investment decisions
• Evaluate and mitigate machine learning biases

Topics Covered

• Fintech
• Quantitative Methods

Course descriptions are provided below or you can view the full syllabus (PDF).