Introduction to Financial Concepts in Python Data Camp

Overview

Context

Understanding the basic principles of finance is essential for making important financial decisions ranging from taking out a student loan to constructing an investment portfolio. Combining basic financial knowledge with Python will allow you to construct some very powerful tools. 

You'll come out of this Introduction to Financial Concepts in Python course offered by Data Camp understanding the time value of money, how to compare potential projects and how to make rational, data-driven financial decisions.

What you will do during this course:

• Learn about the time value of money, growth and rate of return, discount factors, depreciation, and inflation.
• You will act as the CEO of a company, making important data-driven financial decisions about projects and financing using measures such as IRR and NPV.
• You just got married, and you're looking for a new home in Hoboken, New Jersey. You will build a mortgage payment simulator to estimate your mortgage payments and analyze different possible economic scenarios.
• You just got a new job as a data scientist in San Francisco, and you're looking for an apartment. You'll be building your own budgeting application to plan out your financial future.