Check out this video: http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1531/pycon-2010-python-in-quantitat http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1531/pycon-2010-python...

Check out this video: http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1531/pycon-2010-python-in-quantitat http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1531/pycon-2010-python... Doing a search for "Panel data" yields some interesting courses. MIT's OCW and Apple U should also have lots of material. As far as books go, I've been recommended "Lords of Finance" "Too Big to Fail" and "My Life as a Quant".