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Excel Basics for Data Analysis

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!

BeginnerCourse13 hours

Featured reviews

LM

4.0Reviewed Jun 15, 2022

Very content with skills I learnt. However, some sections are not well explained and it seemed like the instructor was just going through them. For instance when teaching about "Flash Fill".

MO

5.0Reviewed Oct 13, 2022

G​reat course for excel beginner user, i learnt use of pivot table and vlook , some new fonulas and if functions etc and able to put it to real work at my field of work. i recommend, thanks

AY

5.0Reviewed Jul 28, 2025

That's an excellent course for anyone who would like to get started with Data analysis with excell. I have learned a lot from that course. Thank you for anyone who contributed to this course.

NS

5.0Reviewed 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.

KM

4.0Reviewed 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.

AE

4.0Reviewed 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.

SR

5.0Reviewed Nov 7, 2022

The course are well designed in terms of learning and like real world exam experience that provides one with full knowledge of the Subject. Overall great learning experience with coursera!

YM

5.0Reviewed Jan 11, 2026

This course made Excel concepts that were difficult for me much easier to understand. The explanations were clear and practical, and I gained real confidence in using Excel. I highly recommend it.

FK

5.0Reviewed May 24, 2022

Wow, the practical (Hands on ) part is a boom! How did the course disigner/ instructor and the rest of the team involved manage to do that?Also the review part....so well done and easy to follow!

MW

5.0Reviewed Jul 23, 2023

As an aspiring data analyst, this course gave me more information about what I am currently doing and after finishing this course I have learned a lot and gave me more interest to learn more.

LJ

4.0Reviewed Sep 28, 2021

Great and easy to follow along. The final assignment works with a too simple and unrealistic data set. I would prefer the final assignment to be a bit more challenging and uses a real world data set.

MN

4.0Reviewed Nov 21, 2021

Really good and useful course to get more familiar with Excel. I wish there was better feedback to/from peers on the last assignment and how to grade... But that is just a minor opinion of mine :)

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