📒 Accounting and Finance

Bokeh

• Description: An interactive visualization library for modern web browsers.

• Use Case: Creating interactive charts and plots for financial data analysis and reporting.

• Documentation: Bokeh Documentation

• GitHub Repository: Bokeh GitHub

Dash by Plotly

• Description: A Python framework for building analytical web applications.

• Use Case: Developing interactive web-based dashboards for financial data visualization.

• Documentation: Dash Documentation

• GitHub Repository: Dash GitHub

FinancePy

• Description: A library focused on financial markets and products, particularly derivatives pricing and risk management.

• Use Case: Pricing and analyzing financial derivatives, fixed income products, and risk management.

• Documentation: FinancePy Documentation

• GitHub Repository: FinancePy GitHub

Matplotlib

• Description: A plotting library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.

• Use Case: Generating a wide range of static and interactive plots and charts for financial data.

• Documentation: Matplotlib Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Matplotlib GitHub
• Managed by: NumFOCUS

NumPy

• Description: The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

• Use Case: Handling numerical calculations in financial modeling and quantitative finance.

• Documentation: NumPy Documentation
• GitHub Repository: NumPy GitHub

Pandas

• Description: A data analysis and manipulation library.

• Use Case: Data analysis and manipulation in finance, especially useful for time-series financial data.

• Documentation: Pandas Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Pandas GitHub

Plotly

• Description: A graphing library that makes interactive, publication-quality graphs online.

• Use Case: Creating interactive financial charts and dashboards.

• Documentation: Plotly Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Plotly GitHub

PyAlgoTrade

• Description: A Python Algorithmic Trading Library with focus on backtesting and support for paper-trading and live-trading.

• Use Case: Algorithmic trading strategy development and testing.

• Documentation: PyAlgoTrade Documentation
• GitHub Repository: PyAlgoTrade GitHub

Pyfolio

• Description: A Python library for performance and risk analysis of financial portfolios.

• Use Case: Portfolio performance analysis, including risk and return metrics.

• Documentation: Pyfolio Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Pyfolio GitHub

PyRisk

• Description: A financial risk analysis library.

• Use Case: Performing various financial risk assessments including market, credit, and liquidity risk.

• GitHub Repository: PyRisk GitHub

QuantLib

• Description: A library for quantitative finance.

• Use Case: Modeling, trading, and risk management in real-life, particularly for derivatives pricing.

• Documentation: QuantLib Documentation
• GitHub Repository: QuantLib GitHub
• Managed by: NumFOCUS

Quandl

• Description: A platform for financial, economic, and alternative data.

• Use Case: Fetching financial and economic datasets for analysis.

• Documentation: Quandl Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Quandl GitHub

scikit-learn

• Description: Machine learning in Python.

• Use Case: Predictive modeling and data analysis in finance.

• Documentation: Scikit-learn Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Scikit-learn GitHub
• Managed by: NumFOCUS

Se

aborn

• Description: A statistical data visualization library based on Matplotlib.

• Use Case: Creating attractive and informative statistical graphics in finance.

• Documentation: Seaborn Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Seaborn GitHub

Statsmodels

• Description: Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.

• Use Case: Econometric analysis, statistical modeling, and hypothesis testing in finance.

• Documentation: Statsmodels Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Statsmodels GitHub

Zipline

• Description: An open-source algorithmic trading simulator.

• Use Case: Backtesting and developing trading algorithms using historical data.

• Documentation: Zipline Documentation
• GitHub Repository: Zipline GitHub