Duke University
Increasing Real Estate Management Profits: Harnessing Data Analytics
Duke University

Increasing Real Estate Management Profits: Harnessing Data Analytics

This course is part of Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization

Taught in English

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Daniel Egger
Jana Schaich Borg

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 quiz1 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 quizzes1 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 quizzes

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 quizzes

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 quiz

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 quiz1 peer review

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4.4 (19 ratings)
Daniel Egger
Duke University
8 Courses1,118,014 learners
Jana Schaich Borg
Duke University
7 Courses722,780 learners

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