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A quick review of the notebooks shows its more just a recipe cookbook for some basic tasks.. I don't really see how this is "training".

A quick review of the lecture notes shows its more just a recipe cookbook for some basic tasks...I don't really see how this is a university course.

"This course is designed to be an introduction to numerical computing and data visualization in Python. It is not designed to be a complete course in Computer Science or programming, but rather a motivational demonstration of how relatively complex topics can be accessible even to those without formal progamming backgrounds.

This training is designed to be conducted in-person, led by J.P. Morgan technologists and traders."

In my experience, that's more "training" than a lot of big corps provide.

This course is up to date. It's been used by several banks to train their new analysts and associates and is designed specifically for finance professionals >> https://pyfi.com/pages/bundle-offer

Some comments in here already touching on this being dated.

Any suggested resources that are up-to-date? Paid or free.

Hard to find newer things in Python. Perhaps:

https://github.com/JuliaQuant

Used at Jane Street:

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

I do a lot of Python and data science training in person and online. I have written many books (pandas, Polars, XGBoost) and more. Link in my profile.

https://calmcode.io/tracks

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

Does JPM have a global python object system like GS?

Yes its called Athena

It’s quite out of date isn’t it.

Indeed, I haven't updated it since well before I left

Ah it was you? That’s awesome. The airline link no longer works.

I'm sure I'll get a thousand PRs in the next few weeks that change everything EXCEPT that link like the great Hacktoberfest debacle that never actually ended...

Lol. How far back did you leave? Did you not hand it over to someone or this was a freebie from you to the company?

there was nobody to hand it over to, presumably they replaced it with a more formal, complete training. It was an intermediate in a larger trend of teaching sales/traders to code https://www.ft.com/content/4c17d6ce-c8b2-11e8-ba8f-ee390057b...

Knowing big corps, it'll either still be in use 20 years from now, or in 2 years they'll switch to Julia.

I think it's a lot more interesting to read the source code of Bank Python as well as its proprietorial editor.

Is this available publicly?

No, but you can find some snippets:

https://youtu.be/M9o9SF5-Pzw?si=Nw-UcTN9HJnIo_6d

https://thehftguy.com/2020/07/09/the-most-remarkable-legacy-...

No I don't think so. But it would be very interesting to take a look if possible.

I prefer the article title that my eye's read when I first opened the page:

"Monty Python's training for business analysts and traders"

I'm sure that that was required reading at the Crimson Permanent Assurance corporation.

For a second I thought of trying it, but then I thought there is zero alpha in doing such thing

If this is what they are using as “training”, no wonder my portfolio with them doesn’t perform. Rookies

Knowing life, this is not the actual "training" but just a course that was allowed to squeeze through multiple layers of reviews and approvals and was deemed benign enough and useless enough that it can be disclosed. Not that the actual training is any better.. hell, our company recently made a big show of "giving" us access to a training platform, which, among other things, had basically a pdf book, but restricted with ridiculous controls. I sincerely doubt anyone learns that way... sadly, I am not helping, because now to show I am doing stuff, I up those stats artificially. I suck.

Former JPM quant here. This sounds right. Maybe this is something an intern was paid to write.

It says training for "business analysts" (I think fresh college grads?) and "traders," not quant researchers.

This was for the markets analyst training program (all new grads hired into sales/trading positions) and also done with a handful of clients’ analyst training programs.

Sort of, this is the generic part that was combined with a lot of Q/A and examples which weren’t written down.

The empty “data” notebook was a bunch of interacting with Bloomberg to pull out data and do calculations, similar to what would be done in Excel. This is where a lot of the tangible, immediately relevant content was.

i know its a joke, but the people that would’ve attended this would’ve never handled your portfolio. that would be the chase side.

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