Prerequisites
Financial statements, valuation, statistics and data provenance.
What to study
Translate qualitative reasoning into explicit variables and testable predictions. Align a financial period with its publication date, and track revisions rather than giving a historical decision the final corrected value.
A project to complete
Form one economic hypothesis using public releases. Record availability times, create a simple ranking or valuation rule and test incremental evidence against a baseline.
A useful deliverable
Publish the problem definition, documented data, assumptions, reproducible code, a simple comparison and a short discussion of failure cases. Label demonstrations and provisional findings clearly.
Continue reading
Use the first supporting lesson, the next practical topic, and the source reading lists. The repository map shows where earlier material is held.