Introduction to Claude Cowork

  • Reading for Class 1
  • Step-by-step guide

The time value of money

  • Reading for Class 2
  • Working with data
  • Resources for Class 2

Describing data

  • The time value of money
  • Organizing, visualizing and describing data

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Introduction to Claude Cowork

  • Reading for Class 1
  • Step-by-step guide

The time value of money

  • Reading for Class 2
  • Working with data
  • Resources for Class 2

Describing data

  • The time value of money
  • Organizing, visualizing and describing data

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Coimbra Business School · FAIIA 2026/27

Análise de Dados Financeiros

Real financial data with Excel, Python and AI: getting the data, checking what the AI does, and deciding with numbers. Taught in Portuguese.

3 classes
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7 lessons
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Class 1

2 lessons

Introduction to Claude Cowork

In Claude Cowork: IWDA in euros and in dollars, then a portfolio of equities, bonds and gold, with two dashboards built in class.

  1. Reading for Class 1

    The class reading: the data, the currency, bonds, the portfolio and correlation, with the dashboards built in class.

  2. Step-by-step guide

    Redo the class on your own: where to get the data, the requests to Claude and the numbers to check.

Dashboard: IWDA in EUR and USD Dashboard: ⅓ portfolio
Class 2

3 lessons

The time value of money

Compare ETFs with their index and with gold, extend history with stand-ins, and work with imperfect data. Then the time value of money in Excel.

  1. Reading for Class 2

    The class's reading: returns and risk, portfolios with cash, Treasuries and duration, gold and the cost of an ETF, Price, Net and Gross indices, and the time value of money.

  2. Working with data

    MSCI World before IWDA, the ⅓ portfolio in dollars (SPY, TLT, GLD), stand-ins back to 2000, and the rules for using data.

  3. Resources for Class 2

    What we talked about in class 2, with sources: network access for Claude, the adjusted close, the ⅓ and Permanent portfolios, Norway, Yale, the ECU and the course book.

Dashboard: SPY, GLD, TLT and BIL Dashboard: Treasuries by maturity Dashboard: GLD since 2004 Dashboard: MSCI World in EUR MSCI index data Chart: Stocks for the Long Run
Class 3

2 lessons

Describing data

Finishing Chapter 1, the time value of money, in Claude for Excel. Then Chapter 2: organizing, visualizing and describing data, with exam-style exercises.

  1. The time value of money

    Future and present value, compounding, annuities and perpetuities, and solving for the rate, the periods or the payment: in Claude for Excel, and in Python.

  2. Organizing, visualizing and describing data

    Types of data, frequency tables, central tendency, quantiles, dispersion and the coefficient of variation: Ex. 2.1 to 2.7 in Claude for Excel.