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Introduction to R and its Application in Finance

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Duration: 2 days
Timings: 1000hrs-1730hrs
Dates: 23-24 September ,2021
Programme Director: Prof. Sunita Daniel
Mode: Online/Offline
Fees: (Online): Rs.8000 Plus GST @18%
(Classroom): Rs 16000 Plus GST @18%
(Residential): Rs 24000 Plus GST @18%

Programme Introduction:

Bombarded with information from all sorts of sources, the digital world contains a plethora of data. Although valuable, this data is useless in its raw form, and needs to be converted into a coherent source of information, and this requires the use of tools such as R.

R is an open source, open access software, that has the ability to facilitate rapid data analysis and visualization. It also has a vast number of available functions and algorithms and packages with applications in finance, which are helpful in implementing various models and predictions. It can also interface to new data sources and other computing environments easily

Programme Objective:

  • To familiarize with R and use it for financial data exploration and manipulation.
  • To solve various real- world quantitative finance problems using R.
  • To equip managers with an effective analytical tool to analyse and contribute to the financial management of the organization.

Programme Content:

  • Introduction R and its importance in finance.
  • Data exploration and data visualization with R.
  • Learning to use real time data from Kaggle and Yahoo Finance for analysis

Programme Methodology:

  • Interactive lectures and discussion sessions.
  • Real time data sets for manipulation and learning financial concepts.
  • Simple hands-on exercises to provide familiarity with the platform.

Target Participants:

  • Finance Managers,
  • Graduate, post-graduate and research scholar students
  • Faculties from AICTE/UGC approved colleges and universities.

Program Faculty:

Prof. Sunita Daniel
Prof. Sunita Daniel , PhD (IIT Kanpur); M.Phil., M.Sc.( University of Madras ) is an Associate Professor at FORE. She has over 21 years of experience in research and teaching. Extremely versatile in her interests, her research has covered a wide range of topics, from abstract algebra to creating algorithms for designing curves during her PhD, even venturing into disease modelling and epidemiology. She has presented various research papers at international conferences held at Dubai, Malaysia, Turkey, China and Zurich, and has also published her research work in reputed international journals and also guided PhD students. Her current area of research includes Big Data Analysis and Financial modelling, and their applications in real world scenarios like finance and prediction of patterns in various fields.

Corporate Group Discount:

One complimentary nomination for every group of three nominations from the same organization, i.e., 3+1 participants for the fee of 3 participants

For registration/enquiries , please mail to exed@fsm.ac.in or call at 9166085159 (Mukesh) or 9810875278 (Puneet)

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