4208082: Data Sourcing and Analysis

Beschreibung

This course covers:

• Data retrieval from different sources important for Finance (ThomsonReuters Eikon, finance.yahoo.com and others)
• The import of such data into excel (for possible data manipulation) and R (for further analysis)

Lernergebnisse

• Students understand ThomsonReuters Eikon and how they can find and download relevant data
• Students are able to import and manipulate such data sets with Excel and R
• Students gain knowledge on and the necessary instruments to analyse these datasets
• Students know how to visualize and present such results with tables and graphics

Lehrmethoden

Interactive exercise with home assignments

Literatur

Venables, W. N., & Smith, D. M. (2009). An introduction to R (2nd ed.). Surrey: Network Theory Limited