Computer Skills Required for Analysts management, software, experts

farrukhsadiq

For you analysts out there, what types of software do you use on a daily basis? Also would you consider yourselves experts with it? Also what is needed for risk management, ER, etc.?

yospaghetti

Any tips on how to get free Advanced Excel?

marsilni

Eviews is for kids …j/k….when i was writing my dissertation the school i attended was migrating away from using EVIEWS in lectures/seminars because (according to the proffessors) it was not powerful enough…instead we were encouraged to use S-PLUS/MATLAB

waldziuchna

anyone use Eviews at work?

Iginla2011

Excel is pretty standard for most stuff.  A lot of the shortcuts help.
A little VBA can add an extra “pow” to your excel work.
R/Matlab is good for modeling and running simulations of stuff too complex to do in excel.  It’s nice for scripting too.
I like Stata for stats, though I might do stats in R as well just because I use it so much.
It’s useful to know how to navigate Bloomberg or CapitalIQ or FactSet, but ultimately it shouldn’t take long to pick up the aspects of these systems that you need.

dyga

I like Matlab and R.

Iginla2010

Excel seems to be most important (combined with add-ons from e.g. Bloomberg).
At the moment I wish I knew BIRT Spreadsheet and Crystal Reports, combined with deep SQL knowledge and outer and inner joins etc.

Elliotbay

chibwack wrote:
chibwack wrote:
Excel w/ no keyboard, VBA and possibly this “R” I keep hearing about.  Anything else will tend to be job specific and you’ll learn it there.
Whoops hah, I meant no mouse.
haha. excel with no keyboard, I’d like to see that one.

agulani

I hate to repeat but Excel, how to decipher news, and use a research platform are the basics.  By the way I work with a TR Eikon platform and if you can do without the Bloomberg messenger you would be pleasantly surprised at its capabilities at a significantly reduced cost. PM if you have any specific questions.

Spongebob

chibwack wrote:
Excel w/ no keyboard, VBA and possibly this “R” I keep hearing about.  Anything else will tend to be job specific and you’ll learn it there.
Whoops hah, I meant no mouse.