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Data Analysis (BUSA90060)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
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Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | January April July September |
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Fees | Look up fees |
Contemporary business is awash in data. Modern business processes and activities usually involve multiple streams of data from areas as diverse as marketing activities, operational processes and financial activities. Therefore, managers are frequently confronted with how to harness these to understand their business better, so that they can make more informed decisions. This subject provides the fundamental quantitative skills necessary for an MBA student to extract information from data, through quantitative analysis, to make better managerial decisions. Students will be familiarized with the tools of quantitative analysis, develop the necessary skills for analytical thinking and a quantitative mind set in measuring performance. The fundamental quantitative skills from this subject provide a foundation to the advanced subjects within the MBA and provide students an analytical framework towards solving managerial problems later in their career.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Apply quantitative methods in management decision making processes
- Apply the principles of statistical variation when considering statistics from data
- Apply regression modeling techniques to gain a better understanding of the complex relationships between business variables
- Possess an analytical mindset in solving business problems
- Possess solid computational skills in Excel
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90480 | Leadership |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
February (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
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6.25 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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
Ole Maneesoonthorn:
- 8 x Class preparation exercises (15%)
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- Equivalent of individual 300 word assessment in total
- Throughout subject
- Mid-term test (20%)
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- 90 minutes
- Week 5
- Syndicate assignment(25%)
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- Equivalent of individual 500 word assessment
- Week 10
- Final Examination (40%)
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- Hurdle requirement
- 3 hours
- End of subject
Chris Lloyd:
- 15 x Class preparation exercises (15%)
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- Throughout subject
- Mid-term test (20%)
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- 90 minutes
- Week 5
- Syndicate assignment(25%)
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- Week 10
- Final Examination (40%)
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- Hurdle requirement
- 2 hours
- End of subject
Danny Oron:
- 8 x Class preparation exercises (10%)
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- Equivalent of individual 300 word assessment in total
- Throughout subject
- Mid-term test (20%)
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- 90 minutes
- Week 5
- Syndicate assignment(25%)
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- Equivalent of individual 500 word assessment
- Week 10
- Final Examination (45%)
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- Hurdle requirement
- 3 hours
- End of subject
Tomohiro Ando:
- Contribution to class learning (10%)
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- Throughout subject
- Weekly syndicate assignment (30%)
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- equivalent to 200 word individual assessment x 10
- each week
- Final syndicate project (30%)
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- Equivalent of individual 1000 word assessment
- Week 10
- Final Examination (30%)
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- Hurdle requirement
- 2 hours
- End of subject
EMBA:
- Individual assignment (10%)
- 500 words
- Week 3
- Quiz (20%)
- 30 minutes
- Week 4
- Syndicate project
- Report (1500 words, week 7) (20%)
- Presentation (15 minutes, week 8) (10%)
- Final Exam (40%)
- Hurdle requirement
- 90 minutes
- End of subject
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- January
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 8 January 2018 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 15 January 2018 to 22 March 2018 Last self-enrol date 9 January 2018 Census date 29 January 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 2 March 2018 Assessment period ends 29 March 2018 - April
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 2 April 2018 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 9 April 2018 to 14 June 2018 Last self-enrol date 3 April 2018 Census date 20 April 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 25 May 2018 Assessment period ends 22 June 2018 April contact information
- July
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 25 June 2018 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 2 July 2018 to 6 September 2018 Last self-enrol date 22 June 2018 Census date 13 July 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 17 August 2018 Assessment period ends 14 September 2018 July contact information
- September
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 17 September 2018 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 24 September 2018 to 29 November 2018 Last self-enrol date 14 September 2018 Census date 5 October 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 November 2018 Assessment period ends 3 December 2018 September contact information
Additional delivery details
This subject is only available to students admitted to GD-BA, MC-BAPT, MC-BAPTME, 294PN, or permission of the MBA course coordinator
This subject has a quota of 80 students. Students will be selected on a first come, first serve basis. However if any student is approaching their completion date, they will get priority in enrolment.
This subject is equivalent to BUSA90061 in MC-BAPTME
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Subject notes
This subject is only available to students admitted to GD-BA, MC-BAPT, MC-BAPTME, 294PN, or permission of the MBA course coordinator
- Related Handbook entries
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Last updated: 3 November 2022