Because our society has entered a so-called Big Data Era, many companies have spent a huge amount of time, efforts and money on data. Thus, data handling skills will be a great measure of a student's ability.This is true for finance. For example, do you know how to process SEC filings, and Census 2010 data? For a positive answer, you could claim that you have a good data handling skill as a finance-major student...
The second component of Open-Source Finance (OSF):Open data, such as SEC filings, Census 2010 data.