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.
This course is part of the Business Statistics and Analysis Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction to Spreadsheets
Spreadsheet Functions to Organize Data
Introduction to Filtering, Pivot Tables, and Charts
Advanced Graphing and Charting
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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYSIS USING EXCEL
Brief Course with very efficiently organized course material. The way of teaching was very good in simple way.A great course in MS Excel for beginners to have an in-depth knowledge with confidence.
The course is good . It gives emmense knowldege about how to analyse a data using powerful convinient and fast excel tools. Though its a basic course but good for those whose excel is not that strong.
This is very useful session, Hostogram is very new to me, it is clearly explained in the session. I have applied some functions in my day to day actual practice. Thanks for the wonderful session
The training provided by Dr. Sharad is easy to follow and learn. Bravo and Thank you.
The level of difficulty from the quiz and the final task is just right and it is making us to think creatively.
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