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Machine Learning for Finance

By : Jannes Klaas
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Machine Learning for Finance

By: Jannes Klaas

Overview of this book

Machine Learning for Finance explores new advances in machine learning and shows how they can be applied across the financial sector, including insurance, transactions, and lending. This book explains the concepts and algorithms behind the main machine learning techniques and provides example Python code for implementing the models yourself. The book is based on Jannes Klaas’ experience of running machine learning training courses for financial professionals. Rather than providing ready-made financial algorithms, the book focuses on advanced machine learning concepts and ideas that can be applied in a wide variety of ways. The book systematically explains how machine learning works on structured data, text, images, and time series. You'll cover generative adversarial learning, reinforcement learning, debugging, and launching machine learning products. Later chapters will discuss how to fight bias in machine learning. The book ends with an exploration of Bayesian inference and probabilistic programming.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Machine Learning for Finance
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about a wide range of conventional tools for dealing with time series data. You also learned about one-dimensional convolution and recurrent architectures, and finally, you learned a simple way to get your models to express uncertainty.

Time series are the most iconic form of financial data. This chapter has given you a rich toolbox for dealing with time series. Let's recap all of the things that we've covered on the example of forecasting web traffic for Wikipedia:

  • Basic data exploration to understand what we are dealing with

  • Fourier transformation and autocorrelation as tools for feature engineering and understanding data

  • Using a simple median forecast as a baseline and sanity check

  • Understanding and using ARIMA and Kalman filters as classic prediction models

  • Designing features, including building a data loading mechanism for all our time series

  • Using one-dimensional convolutions and variants such as causal convolutions and dilated convolutions

  • Understanding...