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About the Course

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. The goal of Guided Tour of Machine Learning in Finance is to get a sense of what Machine Learning is, what it is for and in how many different financial problems it can be applied to. The course is designed for three categories of students: Practitioners working at financial institutions such as banks, asset management firms or hedge funds Individuals interested in applications of ML for personal day trading Current full-time students pursuing a degree in Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or other related disciplines who want to learn about practical applications of ML in Finance Experience with Python (including numpy, pandas, and IPython/Jupyter notebooks), linear algebra, basic probability theory and basic calculus is necessary to complete assignments in this course....

Top reviews

LP

Oct 22, 2021

Very useful course. Personally, I think that there should have been more focus on the implementation of tensorflow and neural network codes. Overall the course is well structured and very clear.

KD

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.

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By Songjie H

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Jul 3, 2020

Homework is not always consistent with what's covered in class. The recommended readings are very helpful.

By Takayuki K

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Jan 18, 2019

One of assignments was hard. Explanation by lecturer was very easy to understand and appropriate long.

By Amalka W

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Sep 12, 2018

It would be great the background theory of related concept are explained in optional videos.

By Martin K

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Dec 6, 2020

It's a good course. There are some missing explanations in the programming exercises.

By Zoraiz A

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Jul 13, 2020

Later assignmnets were difficult but lecture material is interesting and well taught.

By Rafael D d D

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May 2, 2020

Very good review and selected topics, although I would deep more on tensorflow use

By Zheng W

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Sep 22, 2018

The course content is okay, but the programming assignments are not well designed.

By Mohammed B

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Feb 2, 2020

Great course, but the coding projects are sometime hard to understand

By ABRAR A

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Jul 16, 2023

Could use more detailed explanations of what are Tobit Regression

By gayatri l

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Feb 7, 2020

Learned ML concepts and algorithms to be used in financial work.

By Edward W

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Jul 26, 2020

Would be cool if was update to use latest version of tensorflow

By Noordeen M

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Jun 23, 2019

was good but expect alitle explanation on the finance stuff

By Raphael C

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Jul 4, 2020

Exercises need better explanations and code

By Xiaobin X

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Jun 25, 2018

The projects are not so understood.

By Wei-Chun K

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Apr 27, 2020

The grading system isn't good.

By Alek R

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Oct 17, 2018

Assignments were whack...

By Kevin C N

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Apr 26, 2020

Great Course!

By Humberto D

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Apr 14, 2021

Prof. Halperin certainly does have a great deal of practical experience on this subject, having worked in the financial sector for several decades. As such, the lecture videos are succinct and informative. (I will issue the caveat that in order to make the most of this course, one should be already be comfortable with linear algebra, statistics, some calculus and the python libraries mentioned in the prerequisites.) The readings are mostly relevant, at times tangential and in some cases completely off-topic (albeit still somewhat interesting). What perhaps makes this course frustrating, as some have already noted, is that some of the code is outdated. The course, having been taught several years ago, uses version 1 of Tensorflow, and so backtesting assignment code on your own Jupyter notebook can be tricky if you have the latest version installed. It's for this reason that I give this course only 3/5. I got a lot out of it, but it would have helped if it used the latest version of Tensorflow.

By Roland E

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Jan 8, 2020

The assignments and project are very briefly explained. It took me a lot of unnecessary time to figure out what I was supposed to do. Also the discussion forum is inactive and I have a feeling many leave after seeing not anyone respond to their questions. I think there should be one or two dedicated support answering questions at least within 3 days.

The level of the course in general is pretty high, definitely not beginners level, which is fine I guess, but I do find the lectures are at times going very quick and at times overcomplicate. I would prefer an example to start simple and from there to build for a more complex situation. (For example start the bank failure with say 3 main features and show how you can decide to add another one by showing its impact through deviance and multicollinearity and show how you can then decide to add this new feature or not.)

By Fabien N

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Jan 12, 2020

Actually I was finding that course amazing at first, but I gradually became very upset. The notebooks are way too high level and not self-explanatory. The teacher seems amazing by his knowledge, but one are left with the notebooks without knowing what to do, and the lectures only partially help to solve the problems. A lot of search online needs to be done and I don't think that is the spirit of Coursera courses. I was planning to pay for the whole specialization but unfortunately I will have to give up on this course that was very motivating at first...

By Jeffrey G

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Apr 9, 2021

This course is a compilation of snippets from different courses. There is a large gap between lectures and readings and the labs. There are several bugs in the labs. It took far more time than advertised to fill in the gaps and complete the course. The content is excellent. But some work to better organize materials, more closely align the labs and eliminate some of the coding mistakes in the labs would help make this a 5 star course.

By Luis S M

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Mar 29, 2020

The lectures, as well as the quizzes, are great and coherent. However, the practical assignments, which are supposed to be the moment of cross-checking your level of comprehension of the learned topics are rather frustrating. I believe it would be of great help to future course takers to clearly state your expectations (e.g. through more detailed exercise descriptions) and introducing vital concepts before requiring their use.

By Ruixin Y

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Jun 18, 2018

Spent more time than expected. And when I tried to access the last assignment, it showed "404 : Not Found You are requesting a page that does not exist!"I understand the professor and other TA put a lot of effort on these courses, but I would say the assignments are not well organized, and more instructions are needed. Really hope the instructors could update/improve the courses/assignments. Thanks.

By Debasish K

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Feb 26, 2019

Good because it gives a high level good overview of ML in Finance, SVM and Tensorflow.

However, Some examples are very easy and some have been made difficult by providing no references. Tobit regression was very vague. No links to proper reference. Neural Network was the example from Geron's Handbook but there were errors in the custom function that was defined.

More mathematical depth is required.

By Vincent L

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Aug 25, 2019

extremely hard to follow, but better than when it originally came out. I had signed up after numerous ML courses and tried to skip to the later courses in this specialization. I got stuck trying to implement some crazy equations. I'm ok with looking up api methods, but the need to look out for reshaping is troublesome because it's inconsistent throughout the course. Overall, hard to follow.