COURSE CALENDAR AT-A-GLANCE
Below is the calendar for the Spring 2023 CS7646 class. Note that assignment due dates are all Sundays at 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth time. All assignments are finalized 3 weeks before the listed due date.
Readings come from the three-course textbooks listed on the course home page. Online lessons, readings, and videos are required unless marked with an asterisk; asterisk-marked items are optional.
| Week # | Week Of | Lessons | Readings/Videos | Assignment | Assignment Due Date |
| 1 | 01/09/2023 | 01-01 01-02 01-03 01-04 | Python for Finance Ch. 4* Python for Finance Ch. 6* Probabilistic Machine Learning 1 Chapters 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, & 1.6 | Local Environment Setup Introduce Yourselves (Ed Discussions) Start-of-Course Survey | |
| 2 | 01/16/2023 | 01-05 01-06 01-07 01-08 | Python for Finance Ch. 5* Machine Learning Ch. 1* Introduction to Statistical Learning – Chapter 1 | Project 1 Start-of-Course Survey | 01/22/2023 |
| 3 | 01/23/2023 | 01-09 03-01 03-02 | Python for Finance Ch. 11* Introduction to Statistical Learning – Chapter 2.2, 3.1 to 3.3 | Project 2 | 01/29/2023 |
| 4 | 01/30/2023 | 03-03 03-04 | Suntrust Visit* Decision Trees 1 Decision Trees 2 Machine Learning Ch. 3* Introduction to Statistical Learning – Chapters 3.5, 8.1 and 8.2 | ||
| 5 | 02/06/2023 | 02-01 02-02 |
What Hedge Funds Really Do Ch. 2 & 4
| Project 3 Quarter-Course Survey | 02/12/2023 |
| 6 | 02/13/2023 | 02-03 02-04 | Is the stock market rigged? Machine Learning Ch. 8* What Hedge Funds Really Do Ch. 5, & 7 | Project 4 | 02/19/2023 |
| 7 | 02/20/2023 | 02-05 | |||
| 8 | 02/27/2023 | 02-06 02-07 02-08 | Market Simulator What Hedge Funds Really Do Ch. 8 What Hedge Funds Really Do Ch. 12 | Project 5 Exam 1 | 03/05/2023 Exam Window: 02/27/2023 – 03/05/2023 |
| 9 | 03/06/2023 | The Big Short* Time Series Data Vectorize Me PowerPoint Decision Tree-Based Trading | Project 6 Mid-Course Survey | 03/12/2023 | |
| 10 | 03/13/2023 | 02-09 02-10 | What Hedge Funds Really Do Ch. 9 | ||
| 11 | 03/20/2023 | 03-05 03-06 03-07 | Machine Learning – Chapter 13* Foundations of Deep Reinforcement Learning – Chapter 1* Probabilistic Machine Learning 2 – Chapter 35* | Project 7 | 03/26/2023 |
| 12 | 03/27/2023 | ||||
| 13 | 04/03/2023 | Navigation Project Strategies for Q-Learner Trader Options Trading Interview with Tammer Kamel (Ed Lessons) | Extra Credit | 04/09/2023 | |
| 14 | 04/10/2023 | Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning to Trading with Dr. Tucker Balch* | Project 8 | 04/16/2023 | |
| 15 | 04/17/2023 | Keynote on Algorithmic Bias (Drs. Isbell and Littman)* | |||
| 16 | 04/24/2023 | Exam 2 | Exam Window: 04/24/2023 – 04/30/2023 | ||
| 17 | 05/01/2023 | End-of-Course Survey | 05/04/2023 |