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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
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
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Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | January January April July September |
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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)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
June (On Campus - Parkville)
September (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 4 January 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 10 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 7 January 2019 to 14 March 2019 Last self-enrol date 4 January 2019 Census date 25 January 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 February 2019 Assessment period ends 21 March 2019 - January
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 7 January 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 14 January 2019 to 21 March 2019 Last self-enrol date 8 January 2019 Census date 25 January 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 1 March 2019 Assessment period ends 28 March 2019 - April
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 1 April 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 8 April 2019 to 13 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 2 April 2019 Census date 23 April 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 May 2019 Assessment period ends 20 June 2019 April contact information
- July
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 24 June 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 1 July 2019 to 5 September 2019 Last self-enrol date 25 June 2019 Census date 12 July 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 August 2019 Assessment period ends 12 September 2019 July contact information
- September
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Pre teaching start date 16 September 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 23 September 2019 to 28 November 2019 Last self-enrol date 17 September 2019 Census date 4 October 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 November 2019 Assessment period ends 5 December 2019 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
This subject contributes to the following:
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022