Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Option 1: Wednesday, February 24^th at 9:00am ET

Option 2: Wednesday, April 7^th at 3:00pm ET

The session will be very interactive with breakout rooms and a web-based interface for strategy building and back-testing. 

Course Description

The investment world is undergoing a massive change that is fueled by a flood of new data sources (“alternative data”) and major advanced in our ability to extract insights from this data (“machine learning”). In this hand-on session, we will start out by understanding the major trends in the industry, see examples of alternative data, and then dive into building a quant trading strategy using both traditional statistical tools and machine learning.