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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

KN

Jan 28, 2021

Dr Sharad has made Excel Learning very concise and easily understandable. The advanced concepts are easily understood by even beginners. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn at Rice University.

AM

Jun 2, 2020

Everything was explained in detail, even the smallest bits we don't pay attention to. Beautifully designed course, I would recommend it to anyone looking to get started with excel and data analytics.

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By 小柠檬

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Jul 31, 2019

it is really good. i learned a lot of practical skills.

By Albert C

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Feb 21, 2019

Very easy and basic course but very useful and hands-on

By Sean E B

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Sep 26, 2017

Great course. Easy to understand lectures, nice quizes.

By Abdurrahman A

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Jan 20, 2025

I really enjoyed this data analysis course with Excel!

By Eduardo P

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Feb 2, 2023

It is an excellent course and has very good exercises.

By ROGERIO C

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Mar 14, 2022

Otimo curso, didático e com atividades bem elaboradas.

By Naomi S J

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Sep 14, 2021

lessons were easy to understand and put into practice.

By T. S H

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Jul 27, 2021

Very good course and informative and easy for learners

By Karol P S

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Dec 5, 2020

No sabía que la herramienta tenía tantas aplicaciones!

By Fahad S

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Nov 5, 2020

It was an excellent course and I learnt a lot from it.

By Jeevan H

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Aug 2, 2020

Really good course for basics in excel. Thank you, sir

By Irtiza A I

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Jun 24, 2020

Very smart and perfectly organized. Highly recommended

By Dennis S

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Mar 25, 2020

very quiz based, making it easy to master the concepts

By Savinay K S

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Nov 18, 2019

Very easy to grasp and understand, great for beginners

By GUNJAN R

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Aug 2, 2019

This course is very useful for data analysis in excel.

By Adunola A

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Aug 22, 2017

Great Course and Facilitator with practical worksheets

By Ken C

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Jul 23, 2017

Very informative and just what I wanted to learn about

By NANA T K

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Nov 6, 2023

An excellent foundational course for excel beginners.

By rylan b

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Nov 29, 2021

this course helped me a lot to learn more about excel

By Trung Đ

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Aug 19, 2021

very easy to understan, the instructor is nice and pa

By O.K. V

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Jul 12, 2021

The course was well structured and easy to understand

By Yukai L

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Jun 3, 2021

Very helpful for beginners of excel and data analysis

By Orkhan H

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Jan 29, 2021

good couse for introduction to data analsis thank you

By NORRIS E B M N

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Jun 9, 2020

easy to understand, straight forward teaching method.

By Anurag T

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Jun 6, 2020

Nice course, I learnt many new things in this course.