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Property Data and Tools (ABPL90398)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Overview
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Property Data and Tools is focused on teaching students about changes in the urban built environment and property markets through a hands-on analysis approach.
The main aims of this subject include:
- Identifying the impacts of policy, economic and social changes on the built environment; specifically focusing on changes to property markets and built form.
- Providing students with an understanding of the strengths and limitations of property and spatial data analysis methods and techniques. This will enable them to identify the appropriateness and validity of both their own research and that of others.
- Encouraging students to use empirical means to test existing theories of property market behaviours.
- Equipping students with the technical skills to gather, integrate, manage, clean, analyse and visualise property data.
This subject works through the process of conceptual understanding and hypothesis generation, followed by the collection, management, analysis and visualisation of related property and spatial data. At each stage both theory, technique and tools are presented as an integrated unit allowing students to understand why an analysis is done, where property data is sourced, what necessary software products are to be used and how analysis will generate visualised results.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject students are expected to:
- Understand the key conceptual relationships between the impacts of policy, economic and societal changes on property market fundamentals;
- Answer questions regarding growth and change in urban areas with a data-driven approach;
- Critique existing property data analyses and reports;
- Locate and obtain available data for conducting analyses of property markets;
- Integrate, manage and clean gee-spatial data relating to property markets;
- Map and visualise the results of property data analysis.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Basic Microsoft Excel; familiarity with ABS data; Understanding of Urban Economic Fundamental.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Data source identification and critique (500 words equivalent) due week 4, (10%);
- Concept Development and Analytical plan (1000 words equivalent) due week 6, (15%);
- Data Cleaning, analysis and mapping (1000 words equivalent) due week 6, (15%);
- Analytical report (3000 words equivalent) due week 12, (60%)
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Gideon Aschwanden Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 1x 2 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial/seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 23 July 2018 to 21 October 2018 Last self-enrol date 3 August 2018 Census date 31 August 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 21 September 2018 Assessment period ends 16 November 2018
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Property Course Master of Property Major 300 point Master of Property Major 200 point Master of Property - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 3 November 2022