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

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Many of the commands explained in the videos or on the exercises are outdated, especially in the pivots section.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.

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.

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By Joel A H

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Jul 31, 2022

Good overview about Spreadsheets in general and Excel in specific.

By Kiev G

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Mar 19, 2022

This course was very well-organized and informative! I enjoyed it!

By lutfi n

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Jan 19, 2022

This Course make me more understand with Excel. Thank you Coursera

By Muhammad W

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Sep 22, 2025

Highly recommended for people with very basic knowledge of excel.

By Abdoul A D

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Sep 4, 2025

Excellent course for getting started with data analysis in Excel!

By Kavindu W

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Jul 27, 2024

Great content for a beginner to get a good understanding of Excel

By ARUP B

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Apr 28, 2024

Excellent course content and easy to follow approach in teaching.

By Ricardo C

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May 12, 2023

Easy to understand, fun to do, interesting. Really great content.

By Gabriel H

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Jul 14, 2022

This course i'll be very helpfull in my new carrier that i intend

By Delverne P

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Jan 6, 2022

This Course was very easy to follow. I learned a lot. Thank you.

By Quang P P

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Nov 30, 2021

This course is very useful for my first step into analysis field.

By Mac-Donnel G

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Sep 5, 2021

Insighful instrutions and amazing hands-on projects to practice.

By Anggi M P

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Nov 2, 2025

This course really helpful to understand excel better. Thank you

By Mahir L I

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Jan 24, 2024

Good Course. Straight to the point with good practice questions.

By Akash K

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Dec 15, 2023

Happy to Start my Data Analytics Journey with excel & its basics

By Kunal R

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Sep 10, 2023

Really helpful if you do the designated task with full attention

By Mehnaz R

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Apr 3, 2022

this course was so helpful. I really learned new things.

thank u.

By Daniel C F

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Mar 31, 2022

Excelente curso. Muy bien estructurado y amigable al realizarlo.

By Juliana A

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Aug 28, 2024

Very complete course and I really like the 2 final assigments.

By Joy D

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Jun 7, 2024

This is a very useful course as introduction for data analysis.

By Alexander S

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Dec 27, 2023

Very good way in learning how to clean, sort, and analyze data.

By Saqlain M A S

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Nov 8, 2023

It's an amazing course very well explained each concept. Thanks

By Funmilola F

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Dec 15, 2022

Great introduction to data analysis using Excel. Very hands on!

By Nikhil M

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May 9, 2022

It covered from beginning and assignments are good for practice

By Ana M M O

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Aug 2, 2021

Nice and easy way to lear the basics of Excel for Data Analysis