Learner Reviews & Feedback for Excel Basics for Data Analysis by IBM

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About the Course

Spreadsheet tools like Excel are an essential tool for working with data - whether for data analytics, business, marketing, or research. This course is designed to give you a basic working knowledge of Excel and how to use it for analyzing data. This course is suitable for those who are interested in pursuing a career in data analysis or data science, as well as anyone looking to use Excel for data analysis in their own domain. No prior experience with spreadsheets or coding is required - all you need is a device with a modern web browser and the ability to create a Microsoft account to access Excel online at no cost. If you have a desktop version of Excel, you can also easily follow along with the course. Throughout this course, you'll gain valuable experience working with data sets and spreadsheets. We'll start by introducing you to spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and show you how to load data from multiple formats. From there, you'll learn how to perform basic data wrangling and cleansing tasks using functions, and expand your knowledge of data analysis through the use of filtering, sorting, and pivot tables. There is a strong focus on practice and applied learning in this course. With each lab, you'll have the opportunity to manipulate data and gain hands-on experience using Excel. You'll learn how to clean and format your data efficiently, and convert it into a pivot table to make it more organized and readable. The final project will allow you to showcase your newly acquired data analysis skills by working with real data sets and spreadsheets. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid foundation in using Excel for data analysis. You'll have worked with multiple data sets and spreadsheets, and will have the skills and knowledge needed to effectively clean and analyze data without having to learn any code. So let's get started!...

Top reviews

Nov 14, 2024

the beginner level helps to improve my skill with excel, it helps a lot in my study and my career and used to be excel is a hard tool to use, now it's fun tool to use, thank you IBM - Coursera.

Dec 23, 2021

Great course, even for those people that are using Excel every day, this course shows quite a few different ways to improve your abilities to present the data and best practices for cleaning dat.

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By Safin I

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Sep 26, 2025

The Trainer Should Give More Real Life Purpose Example for More Understanding the Reason Behind many operation or formula

By Mark R

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Sep 15, 2021

it is a great course for beginners like me, and it would have been even better if it was more deepened in excel formulas.

By amanda n

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Jan 9, 2024

Lots of things need updating on this. Formats and tools are different and thus instructions and completion often differ.

By Cc C

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Sep 18, 2022

NEED MORE DETAILS IN SUBMIT FORM AND MORE GRADING OPTIONS WHEN SOMEONE HAS DONE TOO MANY CORRECTIONS AND HAS DATA LOSS

By CH H

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Jul 8, 2023

A good foundational skills for a beginner

Go ahead with this course and feel confidence after completion. just like me.

By Katherine L

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Apr 17, 2022

Learned most of this knowledge in my private college course but found it useful to touch up on some newer information.

By Priyadharshan .

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Oct 8, 2024

IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE AND IT WILL BE HELPFUL TO ONE WHO WANT LEARN AND IMPLEMENT BASIC ANALYTICAL FUNCTION IN EXCEL

By Nirmal M K

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Aug 9, 2022

This course helps us to learn basics of excel and pivo table. which provides a very good foundation for data analysis

By Ninad D

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Jun 14, 2024

The course is very good, But I am facing a problem in viewing my certificate, Please help me in solving this query

By Juris U

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Mar 19, 2024

The content of the course is very good, but the evaluation process of other students' works is poorly organized.

By Joel R

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Sep 29, 2025

I´d be better to have live sessions with the peers to review some doubts on spreadsheets. Out of that, all good

By Yucan L

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Oct 9, 2024

The peer-review function sucks, let AI do the grading, way too many losers deliberately failing others for fun

By Jesse H

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Jul 2, 2023

Okay course. Questions and points were a bit subjective and some actions were not standard and best practice.

By jalil s

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Apr 14, 2022

Unfortunately, not being able to follow the instructor with the same excel files was a bit negative for me.

By Mathew K

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Mar 10, 2022

Great knowledge and teaching materials. Has good exercises to practice and have a real world visualization.

By Luanne B

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Aug 4, 2021

Good course, the last two weeks of presentations --the narrator didn't show a lot of what she was doing.

By Maki R

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Jan 27, 2021

The function keys are different for Mac. It was a bit confusing to figure out which keys to use for Mac.

By Worrasith A

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Oct 21, 2025

Good for anyone with little to none experience with Excel, not a good choice for intermediate and above

By Jhemisson M

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Jun 21, 2024

Apenas não entendi porque não aparece uma opção de "Curso concluído" para quem está na versão gratuita.

By Katura G

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Jul 31, 2025

Great course. It does need some updating because some of the features of Excel online have changed.

By Rebeca R

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Aug 16, 2023

Muy buen curso que cubre lo básico del manejo de Excel, es claro, con ejemplos fáciles de entender.

By Sourabh T

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Feb 4, 2025

It was a great learning experience especially for someone who are starting from a beginner level.

By Sahil

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Feb 19, 2022

Very Good Course, but if there is a project on Excel Dashboard then it would be much better

By Mazvita F

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Mar 12, 2025

This was a really interesting and informative course and I really learned a lot. Thank you!

By Latasha S

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Jan 13, 2024

Some of the instructions are not updated for current excel but besides that easy to follow!