New 3-part course
Fall 2015 I will be offering a 3 part course, CS 7646: Machine Learning for Trading, online. It is equivalent to the on campus graduate course that I teach at Georgia Tech. The three parts are:
• Part 1: Manipulating Financial Data in Python (about 4 weeks)
• Part 2: Computational Investing (about 4 weeks)
• Part 3: Learning Algorithms for Trading (about 7 weeks)
Parts 1 & 2 above are approximately equivalent to Computational Investing Part I that was offered via Coursera. This new course is still in production and the topics may change, but if you’re interested in the syllabus as it is presently, you can see it here:http://quantsoftware.gatech.edu/Machine_Learning_for_Trading_Course
The course is being developed to be part of Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science degree in CS (OMS CS). You can learn more about that degree here: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu.
3 ways to access the course
I am expecting that the course will be available in 3 different ways:
• As part of the OMS CS degree program. To take the course in this way, you must be accepted to and enrolled in the OMS CS program. http://www.omscs.gatech.edu
• For free (or at least very inexpensively) via Udacity. This version of the course will likely open sometime in late Fall 2015. This version will not include evaluation and grading of your work by human TAs. I’m not sure if there will be any sort of certification.
• Via Georgia Tech’s Professional Education branch. This version of the course is targeted at people who want certification but do not want to enroll in the OMS CS program. It will include certification and review of your work by TAs. It does not provide college credit though. If you are interested in this version of the course, please register your interest here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MWWVMSH
Computational Investing Part I at Coursera
We are migrating the older Coursera course to their “on demand” platform that allows you to take the course whenever you like, rather than waiting for a session to start. I expect the course to be available there later this summer. You can find out more about this course here: https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1
Mik Quinlan
April 29, 2015
These courses are excellent and really help in getting up to speed on investing in general. Thank you for running them.
Mik Quinlan
April 29, 2015
These courses are excellent. Comp Investing Part 1 was really useful for learning about general investing. Thank you for running them.
Dmitry
April 30, 2015
Dear Professor Tucker, currently I’m taking your course Computational Investing Part 1 on Coursera, but today I suddenly realised that I can not access wiki.quantsoftware.org. Could you please put some light on it?
Tucker Balch
May 4, 2015
It should be fixed now.
Dimitry
May 4, 2015
Hi,
When do you plan to have this course available on Udacity? https://augmentedtrader.com/2015/04/27/upcoming-courses-for-2015/
I see the course will be available sometime in Fall 2015. Does “registration” open up earlier to given that it’s on adhoc/on demand course we can register any time once it’s available? If possible, please add me to a notification list.
Thanks!
(PS Left this comment in the general keep in touch section too at first. Please feel free to delete)
Tucker Balch
May 4, 2015
The free version and the Professional Education version will be in later Fall. Still working on the details.
Alok Swain
May 19, 2015
Dear Sir,
It will be nice if you have a way to get a certification for the course because we can include it in our Resumes. Coursera provides the verified certificate mode, which enables us to include
a link to our accomplishments in our resume and through LinkedIn.
Further if you move the current Coursera Computational Investing I to the Learning mode, then please do consider keeping all the quizzes and machine verification mode for submitted project homework code output etc so that students who complete the course can somehow get verified. The verification and certification is essential.
And thank you for starting this wonderful course and helping us learn Computational Finance and Investing.
Regards.
Alok Swain
PS : I hope you return again to Coursera and run all the three courses with verification mode as a specialization, like for instance the “Data Science” specialization being offered by Johns Hopkins University and the “Fundamentals of Computing” specialization being offered by Rice University. I am currently enrolled in both.
https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1
https://www.coursera.org/specialization/fundamentalscomputing2/37
Alok Swain
May 19, 2015
It will be nice to split “Learning Algorithms for Trading” into two parts.
It would be nice if you would organize the courses like this.
• Part 1: Manipulating Financial Data in Python (about 4 weeks)
• Part 2: Computational Investing (about 4 weeks)
• Part 3: Learning Algorithms for Trading (Part 1) (about 4 weeks)
• Part 4: Learning Algorithms for Trading (Part 2) (about 4 weeks)
And then I would run all four courses consecutively in a four month cycle, with the whole specialization being offered three times a year.
It will be nice to make the Computational Investing into a Specialization with a Certificate being offered for each part of 1 month duration.
Tucker Balch
May 28, 2015
Thanks for the suggestion. I will consider it.
Alok Swain
May 19, 2015
Dear Sir,
It would be nice to add some more topics to the course covered in books like:
a) Python for Finance – ISBN 1783284374
http://www.amazon.com/Python-Finance-Yuxing-Yan/dp/1783284374/
b) Mastering Python for Finance – ISBN 1784394513
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Python-Finance-James-Weiming/dp/1784394513/
c) Quantitative Trading with R – ISBN 1137354070
http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Understanding-Mathematical-Computational/dp/1137354070/
Thanks
Alok
Tucker Balch
May 28, 2015
Your book “a)” is one of the textbooks for the new course coming out via Udacity. You can learn more about it here: http://quantsoftware.gatech.edu
Louis
July 21, 2015
Is there any chance of Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell going to a kindle format? Or do you have something similar to recommend? I don’t really have the luxury to do my study in sessions. I sort of do it when I can so having books etc. on my phone is generally how I operate. It would be nice to get the certificate similar to coursera. However, it’s no big deal as I doubt they have much real world value.
invtraks
October 20, 2015
I love Computational Investing Part I at Coursera. Cant wait for Part II. When will PartII be available on Coursera. Thanks :)
Tucker Balch
December 15, 2015
You can find it on Udacity now: https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning-for-trading–ud501
tubadc
February 7, 2016
Mr. Tucker the course is awesome, congrats! Have completed it all in 2 weeks at Udacity. I have a question: are there any pratical python examples for the 3rd part of the course? The method you used to explain the machine learning theory is fantastic but I can’t find any pratical examples with python…. are there any examples? thank you!