Fall 2026 · Gies College of Business

Build AI agents and ML models an analyst can trust.

An interactive textbook in ten chapters, set at a fictional research firm. Run Python in the page, poke the visuals, then take it to a real model in Colab.

No install. Everything runs in your browser.
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10chapters
8Friday sessions
40+interactive visuals
6sessions done

The course, session by session

Six of eight sessions are done. Session 8 is next, Fri Nov 13; chapter 7 is self-paced.

All0 · FoundationsI · AgentsII · MLIII · SystemsIV · Finance

What the series automates

The firm's goal: automate its research workflow with an agent plus ML, with a person approving every result.

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Foundations
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Agent loop
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Context
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Memory, RAG
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ML I
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ML II
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Self-learning
7
Choose
8 ← next
Systems
9
Markets

Try one right here

A real widget from chapter 0, running in this page.

/// Interactive · predict the next word
Start with:
What the model thinks comes next
Where this number comes from

    A toy model: it has read thirteen sentences from the firm's memos and counts which word follows which. A real LLM does the same job over tokens, with a neural network trained on trillions of them. Point at a bar to see how its number is counted; click it to choose that word yourself.

    Ready? It takes ten minutes to set up.

    Read the firm page, then get a working Colab with an API key.

    Open the book →
    Gies MSBA · Instructor Ashleyn Castelino · Source on GitHub