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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 Ajay K S

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Jun 26, 2020

PROFESSOR SHARAD is a gem be it teaching, or way of teaching. Pleasure learning from him.

Thanks

By Shafayet H B

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Jun 1, 2020

Informative. Good and real life example. Teaching style is perfect. I really enjoy this course!

By Bipin R A

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May 29, 2020

This gave a basic foundation of excel spreadsheet for data analysis, was awesome to start with.

By Diogo B

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May 9, 2020

Very well explained and the exercises help a lot to understand the content. Will advise others.

By Manuel A

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Feb 4, 2020

Excelente curso para introducirnos en el mundo de los datos en los negocios. lo recomiendo 100%

By Lalit G

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Jul 31, 2019

It was vert nice and informative...Good for anyone in statistics and data analysis using excel.

By RODRIGUEZ C J G

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Apr 5, 2021

De mucho provecho este curso en el uso de Excel, para un uso profesional y de análisis de data

By Jervaunie K L

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Jun 21, 2020

I am honored to complete this course and will be looming forward into completing more courses.

By Talanee H

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Apr 19, 2020

Very pleased with this course. I've taken a similar one and this one was better in my opinion.

By Binh N

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Apr 8, 2017

It is very helpful course, it give me a lot of fundamental knowledge in Excel to analyze data.

By Daniel I

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Jan 11, 2017

It is easy to follow and very useful. I have discovered many tools to improve my use of excel.

By Deepshikha R

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May 7, 2021

Very well-explained! A must for beginners. Don't give up on the way. Rewatch and keep trying.

By Jos� P A M

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Aug 18, 2020

Very basic but good information, good intro course. I'll continue on with the specialization.

By AryaN

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Apr 27, 2020

A nice enough short course! But didn't include more advanced topics like data validation etc.

By Havish M

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Nov 5, 2017

As an experienced user of Excel, I found the course challenging, and exceptionally well-made!

By Kerry W

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Apr 6, 2017

very detailed and clear intro and examples in the course on the very essential tools in Excel

By Unjum P

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Feb 13, 2017

Great Course!! Quiz questions needs to be discussed or solved by the support staff if needed.

By john s

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Jun 8, 2025

very good course to get you into the topic without prolonging about the unnecessary subjects

By Mohana S N K Y K

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Dec 10, 2024

Really Great Course!! The Quizzes are greatly structured to test the knowledge of leasrners.

By rajendra s

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Apr 4, 2023

its helpful to currier and helpful in daily routine work.

thanks for the coerces you offered.

By Rita D

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Jun 10, 2022

This was such a wonderful class to take. I am no longer afraid of Vlookups or pivot tables.

By Saurabh S

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Apr 20, 2021

This course helped me a lot to learn about how the data is explored and analysed in MS Excel

By Maneet J

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Jan 31, 2020

Enjoyed it! The course instructor is very good and he made everything so easy to understand.

By Yassine E H

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Feb 12, 2018

Amazing course that enabled me to see the power of Excel and what it can do. Really amazing!

By Hlal A A C

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Dec 5, 2016

I recommend Coursera and this course for anyone who use Excel and data analyses in business.