CFA Institute launches new Data Science Certificate in April

In April 2023 CFA Institute is launching The Certificate in Data Science for Investment Professionals. It is designed to provide investment professionals with practical knowledge of the fundamentals of data visualization, AI and machine learning techniques, and natural language processing, and how these are used in the investment process. This certificate is designed to enable you to apply machine learning concepts to real-world investment problems and explain them clearly to a non-expert audience and clients.

Master the language of data science to better serve your clients.

The certificate is composed of five courses with practical application exercises and one final exam. You will be able to:

• Describe and evaluate machine learning techniques

• Select and develop data visualizations using Python

• Apply machine learning to address investment problems

• Explain machine learning techniques to a non-expert audience

• Use natural language processing to make investment decisions

• Evaluate and mitigate machine learning