Financial Forecasting with Big Data

Quickly create financial forecasts using big data, predictive analytics, and Microsoft Excel.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. The Basics

• What is big data?
• Business intelligence and company financials
• Basics of financial regression analysis
• Predict values with regression analysis
• Conventional financial forecasting

2. Forecasting in Finance

• Decide on a finance question
• Gather financial data
• Clean financial data

3. Performing Forecasting

• Financial forecasting applications
• Applied forecasting with data
• Regressions for forecasting
• Use Excel for regressions

4. Interpreting Forecast Results

• What do the results mean?
• Confidence intervals around the result
• Perform stress testing

Conclusion

• Wrap up