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.
This course is part of the Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization
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Skills you will gain
- Data Analysis
- Tableau Software
- MySQL
- SQL
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction
Data Extraction and Visualization
Modeling
Cash Flow and Profits
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- 5 stars80.75%
- 4 stars13.38%
- 3 stars2.09%
- 2 stars0.83%
- 1 star2.92%
TOP REVIEWS FROM INCREASING REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT PROFITS: HARNESSING DATA ANALYTICS
Capstone project really helped me to execute my skills.
A really good way to summed it up all, but unfortunately there is not much interaction with teaching assitants, and you barely get your work reviewed.
Simply awesome, it did not only helped me to develop the required skills, but gave me the security to try greater. Astounding method, totally recommended specialization
You will be proud of yourself when you complete this Capstone !
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