Data Analytics using Excel
Learn how to use Microsoft Excel as a powerful data analytics tool with a focus on Pivot Tables and dashboard design. This course is perfect for Excel Data Analysts, business professionals, and anyone interested in utilizing Excel for data analytics. By the end of the course, you will have built a personal finances dashboard and gained a solid understanding of Excel Pivot Tables.
What you’ll learn
- Understand use cases of Excel as a Data Analytics Tool & Modeling tool
- Understand the core capabilities of Excel
- Understand Excel Look-Up Functions with a focus on the VLOOKUP function
- Understand Excel Pivot Tables
- Basic Principles of Dashboard Design
- Build a Personal Finances Dashboard using the skills learned
This is a quick and short course intended to help people understand the data analytics capabilities of Microsoft Excel. Special focus is put on the use of Excel Pivot Tables and principles of dashboard design. You will learn the following:
Top use-cases of Microsoft Excel as a Data Analytics & Modeling tool: Top use-cases of Microsoft Excel as a Data Analytics tool will be explained together with top use-cases of Microsoft Excel as a modeling tool.
Use of Lookup functions to enrich a table with more fields / attributes
Excel Pivot Tables: We will go through a step by step process of building Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel. No previous experience is assumed and we will take you through all the stages of building summarized tables using Microsoft Excel.
Excel Pivot Charts: On top of the summarized tables developed using Pivot Tables, we will create pivot charts which will then be used when building the Personal Finances dashboard.
Slicers: Slicers are a very critical component when you need to make your dashboard interactive. In this course, we will make use of slicers in Microsoft Excel.
Principles of Dashboard Design: You will learn the basic principles of Dashboard design.
Building a personal Finances Dashboard
The course is then concluded by building a Personal Finances dashboard.
By the end of this course, you would have build a personal finances dashboard and understood Excel Pivot Tables.
Who this course is for:
- Excel Data Analysts
- Business people curious about using Excel in Data Analytics
- Everyone who wants to make use of Excel in Data Analytics
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