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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Python and Statistics for Financial Analysis by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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About the Course

Course Overview: https://youtu.be/JgFV5qzAYno Python is now becoming the number 1 programming language for data science. Due to python’s simplicity and high readability, it is gaining its importance in the financial industry. The course combines both python coding and statistical concepts and applies into analyzing financial data, such as stock data. By the end of the course, you can achieve the following using python: - Import, pre-process, save and visualize financial data into pandas Dataframe - Manipulate the existing financial data by generating new variables using multiple columns - Recall and apply the important statistical concepts (random variable, frequency, distribution, population and sample, confidence interval, linear regression, etc. ) into financial contexts - Build a trading model using multiple linear regression model - Evaluate the performance of the trading model using different investment indicators Jupyter Notebook environment is configured in the course platform for practicing python coding without installing any client applications....

Top reviews

RH

Jan 4, 2024

It is an excellent course to apply statistic, probability and python methods in financial modelling. I would like that each section had resources to study statistics concepts related to the videos.

EJ

Aug 3, 2019

Great course! Very didatic explanations about financial and statistical concepts also with some interesting practical Python for Finance! Looking forward for new courses from same Univ. and prof.!

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By Daniel

Jul 3, 2020

Part of the code doesn't work. To fix it it is needed to go to Python documentation and do research

A lot of statistics concept are not quite well explained. The course should include more detailed explanations or at lease some links where the this information can be studied

The results of the trading system implemented in the curse are not the one that you will obtain

By Joseph E

Nov 6, 2022

i have to give two stars because I can't be able to do the lab session, I'm always told you have run out of time so I didn't do any lab session, finishing the course without any lab session is very worried which I have ended up knowing nothing despite completion, please make it flexible for me to do the lab session to know more

By Nico M

Nov 25, 2019

Too many mistakes in the use of English throughout the course made it hard for me to follow the course properly without getting annoyed. The instructor's English was terrible as well, just too many mistakes, which made it impossible to follow without subtitles. The content was good though which is why it deserves two points.

By Victor M

Nov 6, 2019

I was hoping for a little more from this course. While it effectively combines statistics, finance and python, it does not go into great detail in any of the three. There are spelling mistakes and the audio quality is not great. For me the most useful part was learning the python functions and syntax.

By Andrey P

Apr 29, 2022

Don't waste your time. The statistics part isn't explained well enough. Python code, which this course provides, is slow and uses outdated concepts. The idea of predicting stock prices using linear models is just a gem! If you are new to python, the course can show you how not to write code.

By Jonathan Z

Sep 29, 2021

Course is good but (a) some Python bits are not up-to-date and (b) final week exam questions should be updated and brought in sync with either lectures or the lectures need to be updated. If Google has a different answer than the course, well, that's not a great place to be in.

By Rohit P

Feb 7, 2022

Course uses <pd.DataFrame.from_csv >. This has been discarded by Python. Since I am begineer to Python and on assumtion that such discarded notations will again be used going further in course, I have no choice but leave the course in first week itself.

By Laleh N

May 28, 2020

i am happy with subject and course syllabus but if the data that the lecturer worked on them, was available the course would be much more useful,

without the data, it was just some code that we were watching.

thank you coursera :)

By Manuel J A

Sep 19, 2022

- Instructor's English is hard to understand

- Materials are not high quality. There are many typos, links in exams do not work, "none of the above" appears as first option, some Pyhton methods are not up-to-date

By Samuel G

Sep 8, 2022

felt very hard to follow, didn't get most of the lectures, and much of the interactive activities I could don't really follow through. Generally, this is a course that I could get on youtube for better and free.

By Nicolas P

Sep 1, 2019

I would change the title. It has little practical content on trade, and explains more statistical methods.I would call it "how to use and graph statistics in python, with some trade samples".

By Vikram N

Feb 25, 2022

Does not explain technical terms well. I had to search online to understand much of this content. Some of the quiz questions related lab to are not explained in course / lab

By Mohini J

Mar 21, 2020

The course tried to cover a lot but wasn't really helpful for those who didn't have basic knowledge of either Python or Statistics

By Bhanu T

Jul 10, 2020

Poor Explanation of topics, was in a very hurry to complete than in explaining the concepts in depth. Did not reach expectations.

By Jacob G

Jun 23, 2021

More coding please. I was looking for more linear modeling examples and implementation. The rest was relatively easy.

By Andrew D

May 24, 2022

Not enough detail. Lectures have good material but a lot of information is presented too quickly. Labs are good

By HIMANSHU V

Aug 13, 2019

Lectures are not very informative. Things are said directly and not explained well. Sadly I paid $50 for this.

By Victor H C C

Jun 17, 2022

weak, not really good course, just showing some basics of data analisys and concepts.

By Danny w

May 6, 2020

The teacher need to learn better pronunciation and slower pacing

By wegdan

Feb 24, 2021

video lecturing lacks clarity and big picture context

By Eliad H

Mar 12, 2019

very basic,

not improving python skills

By Wickson H

Feb 28, 2022

Too difficult to beginner

By Liem J L

Nov 15, 2019

Should be better explained. Could not get past the first few lines in the practical. Looked at the discussion board and people were saying it was because the course is outdated and the code he explained might not even work with the version we were using

By Anas A H H

Jun 16, 2021

1- the language spoken is not clear (I had t oread the subtitles more than listening which was a horrible experience)

2- the labs are bot built in the right way, lots of errors and lots of data changes that effected the application of the commands

By Jack M

Apr 26, 2020

Horribly worded questions. Difficult to understand the lecturer. Week 1 was good to practice python. Week 2 was awful.