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About the Course

The use of Excel is widespread in the industry. It is a very powerful data analysis tool and almost all big and small businesses use Excel in their day to day functioning. This is an introductory course in the use of Excel and is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advance topics in Business Statistics later. The course is designed keeping in mind two kinds of learners - those who have very little functional knowledge of Excel and those who use Excel regularly but at a peripheral level and wish to enhance their skills. The course takes you from basic operations such as reading data into excel using various data formats, organizing and manipulating data, to some of the more advanced functionality of Excel. All along, Excel functionality is introduced using easy to understand examples which are demonstrated in a way that learners can become comfortable in understanding and applying them. To successfully complete course assignments, students must have access to a Windows version of Microsoft Excel 2010 or later. ________________________________________ WEEK 1 Module 1: Introduction to Spreadsheets In this module, you will be introduced to the use of Excel spreadsheets and various basic data functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • Reading data into Excel using various formats • Basic functions in Excel, arithmetic as well as various logical functions • Formatting rows and columns • Using formulas in Excel and their copy and paste using absolute and relative referencing ________________________________________ WEEK 2 Module 2: Spreadsheet Functions to Organize Data This module introduces various Excel functions to organize and query data. Learners are introduced to the IF, nested IF, VLOOKUP and the HLOOKUP functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • IF and the nested IF functions • VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP • The RANDBETWEEN function ________________________________________ WEEK 3 Module 3: Introduction to Filtering, Pivot Tables, and Charts This module introduces various data filtering capabilities of Excel. You’ll learn how to set filters in data to selectively access data. A very powerful data summarizing tool, the Pivot Table, is also explained and we begin to introduce the charting feature of Excel. Topics covered include: • VLOOKUP across worksheets • Data filtering in Excel • Use of Pivot tables with categorical as well as numerical data • Introduction to the charting capability of Excel ________________________________________ WEEK 4 Module 4: Advanced Graphing and Charting This module explores various advanced graphing and charting techniques available in Excel. Starting with various line, bar and pie charts we introduce pivot charts, scatter plots and histograms. You will get to understand these various charts and get to build them on your own. Topics covered include • Line, Bar and Pie charts • Pivot charts • Scatter plots • Histograms...

Top reviews

SW
May 25, 2020

The training provided by Dr. Sharad is easy to follow and learn. Bravo and Thank you.\n\nThe level of difficulty from the quiz and the final task is just right and it is making us to think creatively.

SS
Apr 27, 2017

good course gives a basic foundation for data analytics ! Excellent for beginners who have no idea how to use excel for want to learn systematically excel files given at every lecture are very useful.

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By Liu J

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Sep 6, 2020

Examples given are clear, instructors also explain and guide sufficiently. Overall tests are challenging enough.

By Pearlyn T

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Aug 28, 2020

This course is easy to follow for everyone. Excellent job for Mr Sharad Borle in introducing this online course.

By SHANKAR K

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Jul 1, 2020

What a learning! Thank you professor for the wonderful learning experience. I shall be thankful to you for ever!

By Rajeev K A

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May 28, 2020

Every thing is very informative. I hope these learning will help me a lot. Thanks sir for the wonderful efforts.

By Thomas A

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Jan 24, 2021

Phenomenal course that is a perfect intro to a better understanding of excel from the data analysis standpoint.

By Simona A

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Nov 9, 2020

I really enjoyed this course. The lector and his lection is very professional, straight and easy understandable

By Federica S

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Apr 27, 2020

Very helpful course. It will teach you so much about excel which you can use in the workplace. Glad I took it !

By PAZHANIMATHAVAN V

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Nov 21, 2020

very relevant to my everyday work activity.. I learned many new useful things here.. Thanks to RICE university

By Hector L J A

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Sep 22, 2020

Muy buena las presentaciones compartidas, que hacen de mucha ayuda para el crecimiento personal y profesional.

By Mohammad A

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Aug 8, 2020

It was a comprehensive course. There was a lot to learn including dealing with a lot of data and its analysis.

By Darmarita P

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Jul 13, 2020

Thank you to RICE University for holding this course. Very helped me in finding knowledge for a career change.

By Ajay C

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Aug 25, 2021

Very nice explanation and good exercises at the end of each lesson which helps in better grasp of the content

By Muhammad S A C

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Jun 27, 2021

It was such a well organized course to introduce myself with business data analytics ! thanks team Coursera !

By Marissa M

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Sep 11, 2020

Engaging lessons and relevant to work life scenarios. Professor Borle's explanations are concise and precise.

By Pranav S

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Sep 7, 2020

It is a very good excel introductory course. Pace of the course is really and professor has taught perfectly.

By Aakash G

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Apr 27, 2020

It was a good course for learning basic Excel operation and begin a journey toward data analysis using excel.

By Girishwaran K

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Apr 16, 2020

A very good course to know about data analysis using excel.Nice examples given to understand various concepts

By Liu X

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Oct 31, 2019

Great course outline. The exercises are super helpful ! would recommend to friends to learn from this course!

By Zhang Q

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Sep 29, 2017

It provides a clear and basic introduction to Excel. The tools and techniques are quite useful for daily use.

By Uju O

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Jul 26, 2017

insightful lectures. The instructor did a great job at teaching this course and was very clear at all points.

By JASPER M C

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Oct 30, 2020

This course is amazing and was able to teach me new techniques in using Excel which is essential to my work.

By Efua T

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Jul 16, 2020

After the course, key basic concepts I failed to grasp in my previous studies became very easy to understand

By Yuliya S

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Jan 10, 2020

Easy to follow instructions and forums will help you with your questions. You will learn useful skills in ex

By Amadi G N

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Oct 10, 2019

I would say this course contain great contents with good exercises to shape you properly for analysis skill.

By John C

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Dec 20, 2017

Excellent Course. quality content and really make people get familiar with data analysis with excel easily!!

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