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About the Course

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. 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. "Note: Only learners who have passed the four previous courses in the specialization are eligible to take the Capstone."...

Top reviews

GT

Jul 21, 2019

This course will change you life. I will want to quit, but don't. It is not easy, but it is not supposed to be. Thanks to Duke University, Course and the Professors and all involved.

JC

Oct 18, 2016

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

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By Mohammed T C

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May 29, 2020

It was a excellent course with lots of learning. Thank you

By David A R B

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Aug 16, 2017

Awesome course, the business case, realy cool

By Virgil B

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Jan 21, 2019

This was a good Capstone, learned so much.

By Rochelle A

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Jun 28, 2017

A great learning experience

By Edgar M A F

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Oct 14, 2019

That was so challenging

By Yunyun G

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Oct 11, 2016

It's very worth taking.

By kate l

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Mar 19, 2016

Excellent course :)

By Nattaya N

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Aug 31, 2022

good explanation

By Wildson B B L

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Oct 16, 2020

Great course!

By Hongyi Y

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Apr 13, 2018

Excellent!

By Majid A

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Mar 19, 2016

Amazing!!!

By Sabrina R

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Aug 23, 2018

Excellent

By Vaibhav s c

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Sep 26, 2020

excel

By Kuljeet K

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Mar 1, 2017

Good

By Merve

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Jan 25, 2021

You can practice enough with each course's own quizzes and the capstone project at the end of the series. Thank you to both instructors, Daniel and Jana.. Totally recommended specialization !

By Andrés A S N

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Apr 13, 2021

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.

By David L

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Mar 28, 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.

By Camilo E S C

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May 17, 2020

I really like this course but it could be better if at the end the instructors show us their models

By Preethi

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Jul 20, 2021

Capstone project really helped me to execute my skills.

By Mathilde S

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Jan 2, 2021

Honestly, too much help was given for the maths part. Some of the tableau parts did NOT work out with the instructions but needed instructions outside the material.

By Stewart A

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Jul 25, 2016

Previous courses in this series was better. This iteration is very "paint-by-numbers", much of the material, conclusions, format, is already prepared in advance.

By Tom F

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Jan 15, 2021

This final course in the series was terrible. The instructors do not clearly explain what needs to be done each week to achieve success. Directions are very unclear. I've completed the first four of the five classes, and now cannot complete the specialization as I cannot produce correct Tableau results due to unclear instructions/teachings here.

By Lei Z

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Dec 30, 2016

poor design on presentation assignment

By Luis A G G

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Jan 29, 2023

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