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Investing for Programmers
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Investing for Programmers

by Stefan Papp
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 36m
English
Manning Publications
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3 Collecting data

This chapter covers

  • Data collection from financial platforms
  • The types of data used for financial assessments
  • Selecting Python libraries for financial analysis
  • Comparing free Python libraries and commercial libraries
  • Fundamental and technical analysis using Python

Chapter 2 focused on what we can analyze to make sound investment decisions. With that knowledge, it’s time to show how to collect and explore data. Some data analysts claim that financial data is cleaner than data from other domains. Still, even with superb data, we need to invest time in preparing it for analytical algorithms and determining how to extract insights most efficiently.

This chapter teaches you how to gather financial data using Python. We’ll ...

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