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About the Course

In an age now driven by "big data", we need to cut through the noise and present key information in a way that can be quickly consumed and acted upon making data visualization an increasingly important skill. Visualizations need to not only present data in an easy to understand and attractive way, but they must also provide context for the data, tell a story, achieving that fine balance between form and function. Excel has many rivals in this space, but it is still an excellent choice, particularly if it's where your data resides. It offers a wealth of tools for creating visualizations other than charts and the chart options available are constantly increasing and improving, so the newer versions now include waterfall charts, sunburst diagrams and even map charts. But what sets Excel apart is its flexibility, it gives us total creative control over our designs so if needed we could produce our own animated custom chart to tell the right story for our data. Over five weeks we will explore Excel's rich selection of visualization tools using practical case studies as seen through the eyes of Rohan, an environmental analyst. Rohan is required to produce visualizations that will show trends, forecasts, breakdowns and comparisons for a large variety of environmental data sets. As well as utilising the usual chart types he wants to use conditional formats, sparklines, specialised charts and even create his own animated charts and infographics. In some cases, he will also need to prepare the data using pivot tables to drill down and answer very specific questions. We are going to help him achieve all this and present our finished visualizations in attractive reports and dashboards that use tools like slicers and macros for automation and interactivity. These are the topics we will cover: Week 1: Dynamic visualizations with conditional formatting, custom number formatting, sparklines and macros Week 2: Charting techniques for telling the right story Week 3: Creating specialised and custom charts Week 4: Summarising and filtering data with pivot tables and pivot charts Week 5: Creating interactive dashboards in Excel This is the second course in our Specialization on Data Analytics and Visualization. The first course: Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis, covers data preparation and cleaning but also teaches some of the prerequisites for this course like tables and named ranges as well as text, lookup and logical functions. To get the most out of this course we would recommend you do the first course or have experience with these topics. In this course we focus on Data Visualization in Excel, join us for this exciting journey....

Top reviews

AR

Nov 26, 2021

Excellent course, all the videos and material on point, a lot to practice, i did many courses and specializations and this one is excellent in so many aspects, i put it like a role model.

GB

Feb 4, 2022

Absolutely fantastic course! I've been using Excel for nearly 20 years and I cannot tell you how many times I STILL found myself saying "Oh, that's neat!" Definitely worth your time!

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By Ali I

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Dec 11, 2021

Highly Recommended to everyone who is going to step in data analysis field

By Guilherme P d S

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Mar 27, 2021

Curso muito bom, bem explicado, com exemplos e exercícios na medida certa.

By Maliha T

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Apr 16, 2022

This course is very impressive. All of the videos are easy to understand.

By AYDIN U

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Dec 26, 2021

very good experience to learn dashboarding and especialy for live charts

By David C

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Jul 30, 2022

Very good step-by-step explanation of almost every type of Excel graph.

By Chan C M

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Jun 24, 2021

S​uper useful. The workbooks along with the course is well designed.

By Osama A A

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Jul 4, 2022

though I'm excel expert , but this course add many tricks to me

By Avanesyan T G

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Nov 29, 2021

The best online course I've studied! Thank you for your work!

By Héctor S

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May 2, 2021

I didn't know you could do all this with excel. Great course

By Chien N

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Aug 28, 2021

G​reat course with fine techniques for Excel visualization!

By Oghenekaro O

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Dec 26, 2021

Thank you so much. I have learnt a lot in this course.

By Yelena P

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Mar 24, 2022

Magnificent course! Very much useful in everyday work

By Saman Q

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Dec 8, 2021

Best course I've ever attended for data visualization

By MOHAMAD E M Z

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May 23, 2021

Great Experience, and great teacher, what a course!!

By Eduardo S R

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May 20, 2021

I really like it. Congratulations to the instructors

By ahmed f

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Feb 4, 2022

It is a really great course, I enjoyed it very much

By Victoria A

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Jan 4, 2022

Great course, great specialization! Very useful!

By Ajeet S

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Sep 5, 2021

It was so wonderful to learn from this course.

By Deborah S

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Jul 4, 2021

Wonderful. A lot of new knowledge. Thank you.

By passum g

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Nov 8, 2021

The course content was awesome and intuitive

By Robert C

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Aug 31, 2021

Great tuition, excercises and content thanks

By Sandra A E T

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Jul 9, 2021

Excellent course, I've learned great tools

By Cristian D L P

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Jan 27, 2022

Totally recommended very clear and useful

By Sarah G

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Jul 29, 2022

Very helpful materials and instruction!

By Md. S

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Mar 18, 2022

My assumsion , Its an Excellent course

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