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Welcome to the SigTech User Guide. SigTech provides next-gen technology for quantitative multi-asset research and investment. The SigTech platform includes the SigTech Framework of Python-based analytics tools, a catalogue of clean, curated data from multiple sources, and GUI environments for managing research and production. For more on the value that SigTech provides, see SigTech.com.

This User Guide provides introductions and reference material explaining vital SigTech concepts and workflows. It supplements the API Reference, example notebooks and framework source code in helping you make the most of the SigTech platform.

Prerequisites

• SigTech requires some basic Python knowledge—variables, functions, lists, dictionaries and loops. You can learn about these in any good introduction to Python.

• You also need to know the basics of using JupyterLab—see our JupyterLab overview.