Alternative Data and Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Qingquan Tony Zhang is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign, R.C. Evan Fellow, Gies Business School, focusing on finance, quantitative investment and entrepreneurship. He is President of the Chicago chapter of the Chinese American Association for Trading and Investment, who has long worked in FinTech, including artificial intelligence and big data. Beibei Li is an Associate Professor of IT & Management and Anna Loomis McCandless Chair at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Li has extensive experience at leveraging large-scale observational data analytics and experimental analysis with a strong focus on modeling individual user behavior across online, offline, and mobile channels for decision support. Danxia Xie is an Associate Professor in Economics at Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Xie’s teaching and research focuses on digital economy, finance, law and economics, and macroeconomics. Dr. Xie has also worked at Peterson Institute for International Economics, a top think tank at Washington, DC.

• Chapter 1: The introduction of the portfolio management and risk evaluation .- Chapter 2: The major trends in financial portfolio management.- Chapter 3: Machine Learning and AI in financial portfolio management.- Chapter 4: Introduction of Alternative data in Finance.- Chapter 5: Alternative Data utilization from country perspective.- Chapter 6: Smart Beta and Risk Factors based on Textural Data and Machine Learning.- Chapter 7: Smart Beta and Risk Factors based on IoTs and AIoTs Data.- Chapter 8: Environmental, Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance on Corporations.- Chapter 9: Case Study – Fraud and Deception Detection: Text-based Data Analytics .- Chapter 10: Case Study – Investment Risk Analysis based on Sentiment Analysis and implementation .- Chapter 11: Case Study – Analyzing the corporation performance with ESG Factors.- Chapter 12: Alternative Data Visualization in Python.