Today I practiced Python for Finance on Sololearn! This time I used a package to scrape data from Yahoo Finance. The package I used makes it far easier to scrape data by automatically doing the work I had to do manually. Next time I will be accessing company data with this package!
Today I practiced Python for Finance on Sololearn! This time I scraped data from Yahoo Finance. To do this, I showed how to make a request header that Yahoo would validate. Then I used many of the methods from the last video to scrape data. Next time I will be using a package to scrape data without the manual work!
Today I practiced Python for Finance on Sololearn! This time I used the pandas module to do some basic web scraping. I used pandas to scrape a list of S&P 500 companies from Wikipedia. I also showed how to filter results. Next time I will be scraping data from Yahoo Finance!
Today I practiced Python for Finance on Sololearn! This time I started a new unit on accessing data. I introduced two ways we will be accessing data: through web scraping and Python packages. Next time I will be introducing the pandas package and its role in web scraping!
Today I practiced Python for Finance on Sololearn! This time I reviewed everything we have learned in this chapter, from evaluating future and present values and calculating IRR to plotting data. Next time I will be starting a new unit on accessing data!
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