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Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling: a practical guide, 3rd ed. by Danielle Stein Fairhurst
Call Number: Wiley e-book
ISBN: 9781119520382
Publication Date: 2019
A hands-on guide to using Excel in the business context that contains step-by-step instructions of how to solve common business problems using financial models. It includes downloadable Excel templates, a list of shortcuts and tons of tips. Learn to create financial models to help make business decisions while applying modelling best practice methodology, tools and techniques. This book focuses on the topics most relevant to finance professionals, and covers these features in detail, with real world examples.
Python for Finance: mastering data-driven finance, 2nd ed. by Yves Hilpisch
Call Number: Safari/O'Reilly e-book
ISBN: 9781492024330
Publication Date: 2018-12-31
The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial applications and interactive financial analytics. Using practical examples throughout the book, learn how to develop a full-fledged framework for Monte Carlo simulation-based derivatives and risk analytics, based on a large, realistic case study. Much of the book uses interactive IPython Notebooks.
Hands-On Financial Modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019 by Shmuel Oluwa
Call Number: O'Reilly e-book
ISBN: 9781789534627
Publication Date: 2019
Explore the aspects of financial modeling with the help of clear and easy-to-follow instructions and a variety of Excel features, functions, and productivity tips Key Features.This book is a non-data professional’s guide to exploring Excel's financial functions and pivot tables. Learn to prepare various models for income and cash flow statements and balance sheets. Perform valuations and identify growth drivers using real-world case studies. This book will also help individuals that have and don't have any experience in data and stats, to get started with building financial models; it assumes a working knowledge with Excel, however.
Data Science Using Python and R by Daniel T. Larose; Chantal D. Larose
Call Number: Wiley e-book
ISBN: 9781119526810
Publication Date: 2019
This book covers the two most widespread open-source platforms for data science: Python and R, so that readers may learn step-by-step how to produce hands-on solutions to real-world business problems, using state-of-the-art techniques. Written for the general reader with no previous analytics or programming experience, there are chapters dedicated to learning the basics and step-by-step instructions and walkthroughs for solving data science problems. Those with analytics experience will appreciate having a one-stop shop for learning how to do data science using Python and R. Topics covered include data preparation, exploratory data analysis, preparing to model the data, decision trees, model evaluation, misclassification costs, naïve Bayes classification, neural networks, clustering, regression modeling, dimension reduction, and association rules mining.
R Cookbook, 2nd ed. by J. D. Long; Paul Teetor
Call Number: Safari/O'Reilly e-book
ISBN: 9781492040682
Publication Date: 2019-07-05
Perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently with more than 275 practical recipes in this expanded second edition. These task-oriented recipes make you productive with R immediately. Solutions range from basic tasks to input and output, general statistics, graphics, and linear regression.
Python for Data Mining Quick Syntax Reference by Valentina Porcu
Call Number: Springer e-book
ISBN: 9781484241127
Publication Date: 2019
Learn how to use Python and its structures, how to install Python, and which tools are best suited for data analyst work. This handy reference and tutorial covers topics ranging from basic Python concepts through to data mining, manipulating and importing datasets, and data analysis, including illustrative examples. The first part covers core Python including objects, lists, functions, modules, and error handling. The second part covers Python's most important data mining packages: NumPy and SciPy for mathematical functions and random data generation, pandas for dataframe management and data import, Matplotlib for drawing charts, and scikitlearn for machine learning.
Data Analysis with R: a comprehensive guide to manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data in R, 2nd ed. by Fischetti, Anthony
Call Number: ProQuest e-book
ISBN: 9781788397339
Publication Date: 2018
Learn, by example, the fundamentals of data analysis as well as several intermediate to advanced methods and techniques ranging from classification and regression to Bayesian methods and MCMC, which can be put to immediate use

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Learn Business Analytics in Six Steps Using SAS and R by Subhashini Tripathi Apply analytics to business problems using two very popular software tools, SAS and R. No matter your industry, this book will provide you with the knowledge and insights you and your business partners need to make better decisions faster.
Call Number: Springer ebook
ISBN: 9781484210024
Publication Date: 2016
Excel-Based Business Analysis by Ali Anari & James W. Kolari
Call Number: Springer e-book
ISBN: 9781461420507
Publication Date: 2012
Business Analytics Using R by Umesh R. Hodeghatta; Umesh Nayak This book explains practical business analytics through examples, covers the steps involved in using it correctly, and shows you the context in which a particular technique does not make sense. This book will discuss and explore the following through examples and case studies: data management and R functions, business analytics project life cycle, descriptive analytics, data cleaning, data mining, predictive analytics, classification, association, clustering, and regression.
Call Number: Apress ebook
ISBN: 9781484225134
Publication Date: 2017
Beginning SQL Server R Services by Bradley Beard
Call Number: Springer ebook
ISBN: 9781484222973
Publication Date: 2016
Learn how to develop powerful data analytics applications quickly for SQL for business intelligence.

Browsing Related Materials

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Apache Hadoop
Dashboards
Decision making - data processing
Finance - mathematical models
Finance - statistical methods
Investment analysis - mathematical models
Microsoft Excel (computer file)
R (computer programming language)
MS Excel resources guide
Python applications
Python handbooks
SAS guides
SQL (computer programming language)
Stata applications
Tableau

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Getting Started with Enterprise Blockchain by Michael Bradley et al.
Call Number: Safari/O'Reilly e-book
ISBN: 9781492052708
Publication Date: 2019
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Here are some specific titles of interest from the O'Reilly ebooks:

Using R for finance:

Learning Quantitative Finance with R (2017)
Beginning R (2012)
Apress series on Advanced Statistical Programming for Data Science, Analysis and Finance

Using for Python for finance:

Video

Finance Research: Software Guides/Cookbooks

Books on data analysis theory & techniques for business & economics

Python for Finance, 2nd ed.

Python Workbook: an Introduction with Exercises & Solution

Data Science Using Python and R

Introduction to Business Analytics Using Simulation

Essentials of Business Analytics: an Introduction to the Methodology and its Applications

Data Infrastructure for Next-Gen Finance

Fluent Python

Quantitative Investment Analysis

Business Risk and Simulation Modeling in Practice

Analytics in a Big Data World

Derivatives Analytics with Python

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