CHAPTER 3
FINANCIAL DATA MANIPULATION WITH PYTHON
INTRODUCTION
This chapter highlights the principles of financial data, providing an overview of the primary financial data sources and metrics, as well as the data structure, in the global financial world. The chapter explores how information plays into financial decision-making today. The process of automatically obtaining Yahoo Finance open data using the yfinance library is detailed. Universal Python tools for manipulating data files in traditional structured formats, such as comma-separated values (CSV) and Excel, as well as application programming interface (API) concepts, will also be described. We will explore the most popular open data sources for financial analysis and describe the ...
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