What this blog is all about?
The financial world is very vast and you can take great advantage of it by having the right tools. That’s where the creation of scripts and automation tools comes in!
In this blog you will learn more about how to apply programming and data science in the financial universe. We will build things in practice to help you manage your portfolio and take good decisions.
How to start ?
It all starts with choosing the problem you want to solve. If you understand the problem well, you can choose the right tools to solve it.
However, for most of the problems we are going to tackle, it makes sense to have a Python environment configured, as it is a very simple language for creating scripts, supports several data science libraries in an uncomplicated way and has an acceptable performance for our purposes.
Here is a short tutorial on how to configure an environment for this