Week 6: Bloomberg and Social Coding with GitHub

Learning Outcomes

• Use the Bloomberg Terminal to Pull Data (in Excel and via the xbbg Python module)

• How to use GitHub to manage open source contributions (e.g., pull requests)

Agenda

• Review HW 3

  • What were the economics behind the HW?

  • Purpose: Exact replication?

• Interesting News:

  • Financial Times: “The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund’s $92mn Excel error”

  • Washington Post: “Excel spreadsheet error leads Austrian party to announce wrong leader”

• Schedule a time to meet with Tobias (only those that will be using the Terminal for Final Project)

• Tutorial of the Bloomberg Terminal

• Tutorial of GitHub Pull Requests

• Discuss next HWs

• Review unit tests if there is time