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

Jul 29, 2025

Many of the commands explained in the videos or on the exercises are outdated, especially in the pivots section. I struggled to find its equivalent in Excel 365. Please update whatever is needed.

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.

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By Malick K

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Apr 27, 2022

The couse is great and gives all the knowledge need to be a proficient excel user.

By Miloš J

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Apr 7, 2025

Good, but I had issues with outdated steps instructions for the pivot table Labs.

By Adarsh W

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Jul 10, 2023

Good course for beginners, could have add more videos on functions and formulas.

By Vikas R

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Sep 2, 2021

THE COURSE IS VERY USEFUL AND GOOD ENOUGH FOR BASIC BUSINESS REPORT PREPARATION

By Abhijeet R T

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Jun 29, 2021

Interesting course on excel basics and its application in real world scenarios.

By shubhender s

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Oct 11, 2022

nice basic course for bigginers , very useful this are here to learn for work

By Hammad M Q

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Feb 23, 2024

Feelings acknowledge able after finishing my life's first course on Coursera.

By Scott T

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Jan 10, 2022

Well presented and the exercises were useful in providing hands on experience

By Girmay T

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Dec 7, 2021

This Couse gives enough hands-on exercise for basic excel for Data analytics.

By VItalijs P

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Sep 10, 2024

Might be more complex Final Assignment - with Lookups, Sumif, Countifs etc

By Fabiola J M B

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Aug 19, 2023

Tiene problemas con la detección de plagio en tareas con resultados iguales

By Abhishek A

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Jul 29, 2022

V lookup and H lookup questions should also be there. Anyways a good course

By Tapan K p

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Jul 3, 2023

The course focuses on practical hands on learning rather than theoretical.

By Vinod K M

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Jun 5, 2023

The course deals with all the fundamentals. It is indeed a good experience

By Rizwan H

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Sep 2, 2021

Very knowledgeable wonderful course for excel beginner and data analysist

By PRATIKSHA S

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May 25, 2021

Filled Excel sheet should be provided for hands on experiment of commands

By kommaddi h k

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Jun 26, 2022

This course thaought me lot of unkown topics.That are usefull in my life

By Victor S

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Dec 18, 2023

Very basic but a necessary foundation for data analysis specialization.

By ELIZABETH R B

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Jun 30, 2025

en los videos los tuve que ver dos veces por que esta un poco enredado

By Daniel A

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Apr 7, 2025

The course was painstakingly designed to meet the beginners standard.

By Geoffrey N

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Nov 25, 2022

Kindly update the course content to match the current excel features

By K S

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Nov 3, 2025

Very good course with Interactive Labs to gain Hands-On Experience.

By Saleh M

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Feb 25, 2023

مفيد جدا ولكن ليس مفصلا ابلقدر الكافي ارجو ضاافة المزيد عن الاكسيل

By Sanskriti G

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Mar 29, 2022

Quite good course for a learner who wants to learn Basics of Excel.

By Manav M

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Jun 27, 2023

This was really great I would suggest to learn more from yourself.