Python, Machine Learning & Deep Learning in Finance Finance Talks

IE Business School is pioneering the usage of technology in finance within the Fintech focus. A fully fledged Python programming core course became mandatory in the Master in Finance in 2018 in order to leverage on technology applications such as machine learning and deep learning. Python is an open source, interpreted programming language, with a large set of advantages of which we can highlight flexibility, simplicity (upon developing new codes), a focus on functionality, with a range of libraries and with a very rapid and simple learning curve when it is compared to other languages. This is because of its simple and visual syntax as well as having a huge community of users who share codes in online platforms such as Github (where we can find libraries such as Keras, NumPy, Panda, Theano etc.). Its application is large and widely used in data analysis, big data, machine learning, web programming or finance processes. Because of all this, Python's popularity is growing both among individual users and companies.