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.

Jun 12, 2022

Great introduction of basic excel concepts and how they can be used. The final project was simple and straight forward. I had some excel knowledge but this course taught be many more excel tools.

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By Fakir A M

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Jun 7, 2024

Basic Course. However, I find it a little bit challenging as a beginner. The instructions are very professional!!

By Ahmed H

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Dec 24, 2022

It was really amazing course. Thanks for all who put their efforts for preparing this course in a wonderful ways.

By Jose P

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Feb 3, 2022

Instructions were very clear even when they did not match 100%, it was still easy to follow on Excel for the web.

By L T

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Sep 29, 2022

So much to learn. I have a lot of amazing experience learning from this course. Thanks Sandeep! Thanks Coursera.

By Rio A

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Jan 19, 2022

this course really helpful for me that still beginner on excel. Thank you so much for all of mentors. love u all

By Tomas L

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Jul 27, 2021

Excelente curso, ofrece una buena visión de las funciones de Excel especialmente orientadas al análisis de datos

By AMANDA T C P

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Jun 20, 2022

Excellent course, very useful for data analysis, I teach step by step with many details, it is worth enrolling.

By Sai S

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Oct 26, 2021

Though you are a Excel user, one should go through this course to get refreshed and learn which you don't know.

By R P

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Apr 25, 2024

Very good course to introduce yourself to Excel and data analysis. It is clear, simple, practical. very good !

By Shivani S S

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Feb 11, 2023

A very well curated course with detailed instructions and easy instructions that could be comprehended easily.

By Love A

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Sep 19, 2022

Very well structured and helpful. Covers a lot of formulas and also focuses on Data Analytics tasks on Excel.

By ALVARO J A G

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Jun 4, 2022

Buen curso introductorio al analisis de datos con excel, recomendado para culminar incluso en una misma semana

By Aditiya G

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Jun 10, 2025

great experience with coursera, but very disappointed with the misleading deadlines shown in the application.

By Prerna S

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Jul 26, 2024

It was an opportunity for me to get Financial Aid and learned lots of things which will help me in my career.

By Fernando A

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Sep 15, 2022

Excelente, las competencias adquiridas, gracias a los aprendizajes proporionados en los contenidos del curso.

By Pawan K

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Jun 1, 2021

covers all the basics of Excel in the most understanding way and provides projects regarding every procedure.

By Mina N A

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Mar 17, 2024

I really enjoyed my journey with these lessons. I recommend it for anyone want to start data analyst career.

By Muhammad Y

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Mar 10, 2023

thank you very much for the certificate . and learning experience is huge and very appealing . keep ip up .

By Agam Y

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Jan 23, 2025

This course helps me to improve my skills in data analysis, the material taught is easy to follow and learn

By Muhammad R

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Jul 15, 2025

Its really good basic course for data analysis. Not too much not too less, it is a balanced content course

By Carmen M E

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Dec 13, 2024

Excelente equilibrio en el material disponible en cada módulo. Va vinculando la teoría con la práctica. :)

By Rafael M

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Dec 18, 2022

Um dos melhores cursos rápidos que já fiz. Bem abrangente, os vídeos são muito bem produzidos e objetivos.

By SERGIO J H N

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Nov 11, 2022

Excelente compañero ambas actividades están completas, cubren todo lo solicitados en el curso, sigan así!

By Prateek G

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Sep 4, 2022

Perfect content and assessments to learn primary Excel functions and features required for data analysis.

By James L P

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Jul 10, 2022

I thought the course content was presented very well and the exercises were helpful in verifying learning