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Machine Learning for Finance Workshop

Examine how machine learning can be used in financial research, with an emphasis on validation, baselines, and noisy data.

Prerequisites: Python and pandas experience; familiarity with time-based validation, feature construction, and basic regression or classification

  • Financial prediction targets and feature construction
  • Regularized and tree-based models
  • Simple baselines and time-ordered validation
  • Leakage, overfitting, class imbalance, and model instability
  • Predictive accuracy and trading performance