Increasing Real Estate Management Profits - Harnessing Data Analytics

Overview

Your job is to persuade Watershed’s management team to pursue a new strategy for managing its properties that will increase their profits.

Key facts

To do this Increasing Real Estate Management Profits - Harnessing Data Analytics course offered by Coursera in partnership with Duke University, you will: 

• Elicit information about important variables relevant to your analysis; 
• Draw upon your new MySQL database skills to extract relevant data from a real estate database; 
• Implement data analysis in Excel to identify the best opportunities for Watershed to increase revenue and maximize profits, while managing any new risks; 
• Create a Tableau dashboard to show Watershed executives the results of a sensitivity analysis; and 
• Articulate a significant and innovative business process change for Watershed based on your data analysis, that you will recommend to company executives. 

Airbnb, our Capstone’s official Sponsor, provided input on the project design. The top 10 Capstone completers each year will have the opportunity to present their work directly to senior data scientists at Airbnb live for feedback and discussion.