Unlock the power of one of the world’s most popular spreadsheet tools, Excel! Best of all, no prior experience or knowledge is required! Throughout this track, you’ll learn how to prepare, visualize and analyze data through hands-on exercises. You’ll learn valuable skills such as preparing your data for further analysis through features such as PivotTables, V-Lookups, and Excel formulas before creating presentation-ready visualizations and dashboards.
You’ll then take advanced skills one step further by utilizing powerful features such as the What-if tool for sensitivity and scenario analysis before dipping into predictive analysis with the power of Excel’s forecasting features. By the end of this track, you’ll have gained the knowledge and skills to carry out analysis in Excel on real-world scenarios.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction to Excel
- Master the Excel basics and learn to use this spreadsheet tool to conduct impactful analysis.
- Data Preparation in Excel
- Understand how to prepare Excel data through logical functions, nested formulas, lookup functions, and PivotTables.
- Data Visualization in Excel
- Learn how to create a range of visualizations in Excel for different data layouts, ensuring you incorporate best practices to help you build dashboards.
- Data Analysis in Excel
- Learn how to analyze data with PivotTables and intermediate logical functions before moving on to tools such as what-if analysis and forecasting.
- Case Study: Analyzing Customer Churn in Excel
- You will investigate a dataset from a fictitious company called Databel in Excel, and need to figure out why customers are churning.
Taught by
Jess Ahmet, Iason the man the myth the legend, Agata Bak-Geerinck, and Nick Edwards
