Factors are at the core of a modern quant equity workflow. This episode introduces the notion of alpha and risk factors at a high level, and delves into some of the use cases which include: understanding how the market is moving, understanding how a portfolio is exposed to sources of risk, and turning ideas for price forecasting into encapsulated alpha factors.\n --\n Sponsored by DataCamp.com \u2013 DataCamp is the ultimate go-to for learning data science and stats, using programming languages Python and R. Start any online course today\u2014for FREE!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices