Learn Python & SQL for quantitative finance - free, in your browser
EcoFinLearn teaches the coding every quant, analyst and economist actually uses - Python, pandas and scikit-learn, plus advanced SQL - on real market and macro data. Every lesson runs in your browser with no install and no setup, and each one has a hands-on exercise you complete yourself, checked instantly. It is free to learn, with a certificate you can add to LinkedIn. Built by Sitraka Forler, a lecturer at Durham Business School.
Six tracks, from your first line of code to a real backtest
- Python Foundations - Variables, Control Flow & Functions
- Data Manipulation - Pandas & Time-Series for Finance
- Machine Learning - Scikit-learn for Asset Return Prediction
- SQL Foundations - Relational Database Basics for Finance
- Advanced Finance SQL - Window Functions, Macro Joins & Analytics
- IT Essentials - From Laptop to Production
More than lessons
- Daily Challenge - one fresh exercise a day - streaks build the habit
- Capstone Projects - CV-ready quant research work, step by step
- Practice Mode - redo the lessons you needed hints for
- Certificates - verify a completion certificate and add it to LinkedIn
Free tools & references - no signup
- Finance & data glossary - 62 terms (Sharpe ratio, CAPM, VaR, SQL window functions…) with the formula and runnable code - 8 of them with interactive, animated explainers: put–call parity, Black–Scholes, the Sharpe ratio, Value at Risk, Okun's law, PPP, Cobb–Douglas and the Gordon growth model.
- Careers guide - eleven entry-level finance, economics and data roles explained: what you do, the skills that get you hired, realistic entry pay in the UK, Europe, US and worldwide, and how graduates get in.
- Frontier - big tech & AI labs - interview loops for Google and the AI labs, a system-design primer, ML system design, and honest 2026 pay.
- Research library - a curated, citable reading list of seminal quantitative-finance papers.
- Thesis data guide - how and where to source a clean, point-in-time dataset for a dissertation.
- Quant Notes - short reads, each with one machine-verified snippet.
- For teams & universities - the lessons stay free; verified certificates and course licensing for educators.