Applied Coding for Risk Management Seminar, Presented by the ERM Program

January 24 – April 11, 2025
Time for all workshops: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET

Coding is a powerful tool used everywhere. This Python based seminar series is intended to take your ability to model risk to the next level. The seminar covers business simulation, database queries on time series data, object oriented programming applied to games, analytics with Python, and intermediate Python.

How To Join a Session

Click here at 11:00 am ET on the day of your desired workshop to join virtually. Each workshop ends at 12:30 pm ET.

Workshop Info 

Friday, January 24 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
OOP and Games 1
Object Oriented Programming is a powerful tool for collaborative work. The approach is used on large projects, 3rd party analytics platforms. And a great way to learn to code with objects is to build a game in Python! In part 1, we'll use PyGame to build objects and control them.

Friday, January 31 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
OOP and Games 2
Object Oriented Programming is a powerful tool for collaborative work. The approach is used on large projects, 3rd party analytics platforms. And a great way to learn to code with objects is to build a game in Python! In part 2, we'll make a game with those objects.

Friday, February 7 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
Time Series Data 1
Information is frequently organized across time. And this time series of data usually requires its own style of analytics and syntax. Come learn that syntax in Python. In part 1, we'll cover the foundational tools for modeling time series data.

Friday, February 14 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
Time Series Data 2
Information is frequently organized across time. And this time series of data usually requires its own style of analytics and syntax. Come learn that syntax in Python. In part 2, we'll cover how to model volatility.

Friday, February 21 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
OOP and Inheritance
After the hands-on experience building a game with Python, we can now study some of the theory behind Object Oriented Programming.

Friday, February 28 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
Monte Carlo Simulation
Some complex events can't be modeled with formulas but they can be simulated. Come join us to explore using Monte Carlo Simulation.

Friday, March 7 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
Intermediate Python 1
Come learn about list comprehensions, decorators, contexts, lamdba functions, map, filter, generators, args & kwargs, and much more!

Friday, March 14 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
Intermediate Python 2
Come learn about list comprehensions, decorators, contexts, lamdba functions, map, filter, generators, args & kwargs, and much more!

Friday, March 28 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
SQL and Time Series Data 1
Analyzing Time Series data requires management of timestamps and intervals, which can be challenging to handle with SQL. Come join us as we work through this challenge in the context of a loan portfolio.

Friday, April 4 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
SQL and Time Series Data 2
Analyzing Time Series data requires management of timestamps and intervals, which can be challenging to handle with SQL. Come join us as we work through this challenge in the context of a loan portfolio.

Friday, April 11 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ET
APIs with Python
The things that we can do with python go beyond our desktop computers. Services are now available through the cloud. Come join as we show you how to use APIs to access open AI, Dalle-2, Gmail, and other services and data sources.