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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 Irene S

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Nov 14, 2017

very easy to understand and follow

By Mario R

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Oct 24, 2017

Well explained and easy to follow.

By Rajat S

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Aug 24, 2017

Extremely Helpful and Challenging.

By Walter L

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Jan 5, 2017

Very Good and informative course!!

By CHEROTICH M

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Oct 7, 2023

Very applicable in business world

By Felix Z

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Mar 25, 2023

I learn more than i was expecting

By Barnali D

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Aug 3, 2021

It was really a very good course.

By belal e e e

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Oct 4, 2020

it was a great knowledge for me !

By Vaishali L

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Aug 17, 2020

chart explanations is very good .

By Kushagra M

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Jul 16, 2020

Very nice and informative course.

By MD. S H

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May 29, 2020

The weekly test was really tough.

By Rahul

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May 10, 2020

Awesome!

Must try it once at time!

By Amit K

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May 10, 2020

It was very furitful for me thnks

By Arunchandar M

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May 1, 2020

Useful for data analysis. Thanks.

By Ashish T

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Apr 27, 2020

The assignments were pretty good!

By Imamverdi G

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Apr 11, 2020

Thanks for this course.I love you

By Saurabh K R

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Apr 8, 2020

Well structured and comprehensive

By Krishna B

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Mar 26, 2020

It was nice to be a part of this.

By Vida P

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Jun 26, 2022

Practical examples; very useful!

By Franklin G

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Oct 20, 2021

Excellent Course, It is useful.

By Danial H A

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Jul 16, 2020

Easy to understand. Very helpful

By Md S I

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May 14, 2020

Such a great course. I loved it.

By Ibna S A

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Apr 23, 2020

Best course to learn basic excel

By Sarah H

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Apr 19, 2020

Informative - the pace is great.