In this final course you will complete a Capstone Project using data analysis to recommend a method for improving profits for your company, Watershed Property Management, Inc. Watershed is responsible for managing thousands of residential rental properties throughout the United States. Your job is to persuade Watershed’s management team to pursue a new strategy for managing its properties that will increase their profits. To do this, you will: (1) Elicit information about important variables relevant to your analysis; (2) Draw upon your new MySQL database skills to extract relevant data from a real estate database; (3) Implement data analysis in Excel to identify the best opportunities for Watershed to increase revenue and maximize profits, while managing any new risks; (4) Create a Tableau dashboard to show Watershed executives the results of a sensitivity analysis; and (5) Articulate a significant and innovative business process change for Watershed based on your data analysis, that you will recommend to company executives.
Increasing Real Estate Management Profits: Harnessing Data Analytics
This course is part of Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization
Instructors: Daniel Egger
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There are 7 modules in this course
The goal for this week is to learn about the Capstone Project you are tasked with, acquire background about the business problem, and begin to outline the steps of your analysis.
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5 videos12 readings1 assignment1 peer review
The goal of this week is for you to extract the relevant data from the MySQL database you are given access to, and to look at it briefly in Tableau to get sense of what data you have.
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1 video2 readings2 assignments1 ungraded lab
The goal of this week is for you to create a financial model using Excel to analyze the data you extracted from the database, and to start to predict short-term rents for some of Watershed's existing properties.
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5 videos15 readings5 assignments
The goal for this week is for you to use your projections about the Watershed properties to estimate cash flows and profits Watershed would experience if it converted properties to short-term rentals.
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3 videos10 readings4 assignments
The goal of this week and next week is to build an analytical dashboard in Tableau using the data models and assumptions you have discovered in prior weeks.
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6 videos2 readings
This week complete your dashboard and add design elements so the dashboard is ready for stakeholders (Watershed executives, for example) to use it to test your model's assumptions.
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2 videos5 readings1 assignment
This week, design and give a presentation for Watershed executives with your business recommendations, and complete a white paper template. Evaluate 3 peer's dashboards, white papers and presentations.
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2 videos6 readings1 assignment1 peer review
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Reviewed on Dec 6, 2020
Really, really, really enjoyed this project. I am sad for it to end but I have learnt so much over this specialisation. Thank you to both instructors.
Reviewed on Mar 27, 2017
It would have been nice to use more complex data analysis, as used in the second course of this specialization, in order to build the final model.
Reviewed on Aug 20, 2020
If you have come this far, I would recommend giving it a go! You will be so glad you did
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