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Financial Forecasting with Big Data

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Overview

Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know
Exercise files

1. The Basics

What is big data?
Business intelligence and company financials
Basics of financial regression analysis
Predict values with regression analysis
Conventional financial forecasting

2. Forecasting in Finance

Decide on a finance question
Gather financial data
Clean financial data

3. Performing Forecasting

Financial forecasting applications
Applied forecasting with data
Regressions for forecasting
Use Excel for regressions

4. Interpreting Forecast Results

What do the results mean?
Confidence intervals around the result
Perform stress testing

Conclusion

Wrap up

Taught by

Michael McDonald

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