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Data Visualization & Business Intelligence Specialization

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Data Visualization & Business Intelligence Specialization

Visualize Data for Business Insights.

Learn chart design, Excel dashboards, Power BI analytics & storytelling to drive smarter decisions.

Hussein ElGhoul
Starweaver
Sonali Sen Baidya

Instructors: Hussein ElGhoul

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Beginner level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design clear charts and dashboards using Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI to communicate insights.

  • Prepare, clean and model data; apply PivotTables, DAX and row‑level security to create interactive dashboards.

  • Craft compelling data stories using narrative techniques, visual cues and AI tools to drive business decisions.

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Specialization - 13 course series

Charts: Visualize Data Like a Pro

Charts: Visualize Data Like a Pro

Course 1, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Learners will create clear, effective data visualizations by selecting appropriate chart types and applying design best practices.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Histogram
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Scatter Plots
Present Compelling Data Stories with Excel

Present Compelling Data Stories with Excel

Course 2, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Learners will be able to transform raw financial data into persuasive Excel narratives, refining clarity and flow through peer feedback.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Dashboard
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Case Studies
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Financial Reporting
Category: Peer Review
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Business
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Constructive Feedback
Category: Presentations

What you'll learn

  • Use table functionalities in Microsoft Excel to organize, sort, and filter data.

  • Visually analyze data by highlighting cells on the basis of conditional formatting rules.

  • Explore trends by graphing data in the form of line and column charts, through the use of PivotTables.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data Literacy
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Data Analysis Software
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Data Visualization Software
Create Charts and Dashboards Using Microsoft Excel

Create Charts and Dashboards Using Microsoft Excel

Course 4, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Create PivotTables to assess specific relationships within the data.

  • Create line, bar, and pie charts to present the information from the PivotTables.

  • Compose a dashboard with the charts and tables created to present a global picture of the data.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Dashboard
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Trend Analysis
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Microsoft 365
Category: Microsoft Office
Dynamic Dashboards: Report and Visualize Data

Dynamic Dashboards: Report and Visualize Data

Course 5, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Learners will construct interactive Excel dashboards and optimize their design for clarity and impact using data visualization best practices.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Presentation
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Pivot Tables And Charts
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Design Reviews
Category: Dashboard

What you'll learn

  • Make your presentations more engaging and visual so you can captivate your audience’s attention

  • Customize your slides through changing their backgrounds, visualize your data through inserting videos and using SmartArt

  • Animate your slides content and learn how to apply and control the transitions between your slides

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microsoft PowerPoint
Category: Presentations
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Video Editing
Category: Data Visualization
PowerBI: Visualize & Publish Data

PowerBI: Visualize & Publish Data

Course 7, 2 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Power BI
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Sharing
Category: Data Validation
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Business Reporting
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Financial Reporting
Category: Dashboard
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Microsoft Excel
Model Power BI Data with Security

Model Power BI Data with Security

Course 8, 2 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Star Schema
Category: Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Category: Data Security
Category: Relational Databases
Category: Database Design
Category: Data Access
Category: Financial Modeling
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Power BI
Category: Gross Profit
Category: Security Controls
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Financial Data
Category: Dashboard
Category: Model Deployment

What you'll learn

  • Design and refine interactive dashboards by applying user-centered evaluation techniques to create clear and actionable data visualizations.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Synthesis
Category: Data Integration
Category: Dashboard
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Grafana
Category: Tableau Software
Category: Driving engagement
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: User Experience Design
Category: Product Improvement
Category: Usability
Category: Graphic and Visual Design
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Market Research
Category: Data Visualization
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Peer Review
Category: Data Literacy

What you'll learn

  • Describe Power BI’s core functions, including data connectivity, modeling & visualization, and explain DAX expressions vs. DAX Query View.

  • Apply Power BI tools to connect to data sources, clean & transform data, and implement DAX functions for calculated columns, measures & calculations.

  • Analyze ChatGPT & Microsoft Copilot for DAX optimization, assess BI tasks, and evaluate visualization techniques for insight-driven reports.

  • Create interactive dashboards with advanced visuals, AI analytics, optimized dataflows, and best practices for modeling & reporting performance.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Power BI
Category: Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Category: Microsoft Copilot
Category: Microsoft Power Platform
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Data Integration
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Performance Reporting
Category: Dashboard
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
PowerBI for Beginners: Data transformation

PowerBI for Beginners: Data transformation

Course 11, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Transform date, time, and duration data for analysis in Power BI.

  • Merge and clean datasets by handling inconsistencies and outliers.

  • Apply mean imputation and other cleaning techniques to prepare data for predictive modeling.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Data Integration
Category: Power BI
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Data Quality

What you'll learn

  • Import, analyze data, and define key performance indicators (KPIs) for dashboard tracking

  • Apply visualization best practices by matching chart types to specific data insights

  • Design an interactive dashboard that integrates multiple visualizations to tell a cohesive story

Skills you'll gain

Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Power BI
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Sales Presentation
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Regional Sales
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Dashboard
Category: Business Metrics
Power BI for Beginners: Build your First Report

Power BI for Beginners: Build your First Report

Course 13, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Build report with visualizations

  • Manage data relations and transform data with Power Query

  • Explore additional Power BI features like filtering, publishing and graphs customization

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Transformation
Category: Power BI
Category: Data Visualization Software
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Dashboard
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Modeling
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Microsoft Power Platform
Category: Data Cleansing

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Instructors

Hussein ElGhoul
5 Courses32,552 learners
Starweaver
Coursera
554 Courses1,047,295 learners
Sonali Sen Baidya
Coursera
6 Courses9,084 learners

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