Artificial intelligence in general and specifically machine learning are becoming increasingly important tools for many industries and enterprises. But one business sector in particular has long since adopted and benefitted from these powerful computing paradigms: investment services. In fact, over the past decade, few other industries and sectors have experienced the frenetic pace of automation as that of the investment management industry, the direct result of algorithmic trading and machine learning technologies. Industry experts estimate that today as much as 70% of the daily trading volume in the United States equity markets is executed algorithmically-by computer programs following a set of predefined rules that span the entire trading process, from idea generation to execution and portfolio management. But although all algorithmic trading is executed by computers, the rules for generating trades are either designed by humans or discovered by machine learning algorithms from training data. Not surprisingly, the ability to create these algorithms, particularly using Python, is in high demand.