From the course: Algorithmic Trading and Finance Models with Python, R, and Stata Essential Training (2019)
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Importing data in Python
From the course: Algorithmic Trading and Finance Models with Python, R, and Stata Essential Training (2019)
Importing data in Python
- [Instructor] All right, now as I said, when we're looking at Python in this particular course, we're assuming you already have at least some working knowledge of the software. If you don't, there's a variety of courses here on LinkedIn Learning that are a great place to get started learning. In our case, our focus is on using particular tools and commands that can help you from the perspective of effectively doing algorithmic trading. So I'm going to open up a new file, and what we want to start by doing is just pulling in some data. All algorithmic trading is built around examining past data, looking for correlations or trading opportunities, and then applying that to new data going forward. So to begin with, I'm going to start by simply installing the pandas and panda datareaders that we're going to need in this particular set of projects. Now you may already have these installed on your machine. If you do, that's fine. This is solely to make sure that we don't have any issues…
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