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[2023] Introduction to Data Analytics with Microsoft Excel

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Overview

Master data analysis through Excel with advanced hands on practical training

What you'll learn:
  • What is Data Analytics & Why is it so Important
  • Why Do We Need Analytics? What's Changed?
  • How to Find Appropriate Datasets to work with
  • How to Analyse you Data
  • The importance of Mean, Mode, Median and Range of Data
  • What is the difference between Normal and Non Normal Data
  • How to create a histogram
  • How to find and remove outliers
  • Understand what is a standard deviation and relative standard deviation
  • Understand the Difference Between a Run and a Control Chart?
  • The basics of working with pivot tables
  • Starting to Tell Our Analytical Story
  • How to Visualize our data
  • How to Present You data and bring the story together

Requirements

  • Microsoft Office 365 or Excel 2010 - 2019

  • Mac users Pivot Visuals may look slightly different to the examples shown

  • Basic experience with Excel functionality is a bonus but not required

Description

Welcome to the world of Data Analytics, voted the sexiest job of the 21st Century.

In this expertly crafted course, we will cover a complete introduction to data analytics using Microsoft Excel, you will cover the concepts, the value and practically apply core analytical skills to turn data into insight and present as a story.

Look at this as the first step in becoming a fully-fledged Data Scientist


Course Outline

The course covers each of the following topics in detail, with datasets, templates and 17 practical activities to walk through step by step:

What is Data Analytics

  • Why Do We Need It in this new world

  • Thinking about Data, how it works in the lad v how it works in the wild

  • Qualitative v Quantitative data and their importance

Finding Your Data

  • How to find Sources of Data and what they contain

  • Reviewing the Dataset and getting hands on

Analysing Your Data

  • Mean, Modes, Median and Range

  • Normal and Non normal Data and its impacts to predictability

  • What is an Outlier in our data and how do we remove

  • Distribution and Histograms and why they are important

  • Standard Deviation and Relative Standard Deviation, why variance is the enemy

  • What are Run and Control charts and what do they tell us?


Working With Pivot Tables

  • How the Pivot Builder Works

  • Setting Our Headers

  • Working with calculated fields

  • Sorting and Filtering

  • Transforming Data with Pivot Tables


Data Engineering

  • How to create new, insightful datasets

  • The importance of balanced data

  • Looking at Quality, Cost and Delivery together


Start Telling Our Analytical Story

  • What is your data telling?

  • Ask Yourself Questions

  • Transforming Data into Information


Visualizing Your Data

  • Levels of Reporting

  • What Chart to Use

  • Does Color Matter

  • Let's Visualize Some Data


Presenting Your Data

  • Bringing The Story Together with a Narrative


Practical Activities

We will cover the following practical activities in detail through this course:

  • Practical Example 1 - Mean, Mode, Median, Range & Normality

  • Practical Example 2 - Distribution and Histograms

  • Practical Example 3 - Standard Deviation and Relative Standard Deviation

  • Practical Example 4 - A Little Data Engineering

  • Practical Example 5 - Creating a Run Chart

  • Practical Example 6 - Create a Control Chart

  • Practical Example 7 - Create a Summary Pivot of Our Claims Data

  • Practical Example 8 - Transforming Data

  • Practical Example 9 - Calculated Fields, Sorting and Filtering

  • Practical Example 10 - Lets Engineer Some QCD Data

  • Practical Example 11 - Lets Answer Our Analytical Questions with Pivots

  • Practical Example 12 - Visualizing Our Data

  • Practical Example 13 - Lets Pull our Strategic Level Analysis Together

  • Practical Example 14 - Lets Pull our Tactical Level Analysis Together

  • Practical Example 15 - Lets Pull our Operational Level Analysis Together

  • Practical Example 16 - Lets Add Our Key Findings

  • Practical Example 17 - Lets Add Our Recommendations

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who works with Excel on a regular basis and wants to supercharge their skills

  • Excel users who have basic skills but would like to become more proficient in data exploration and analysis

  • Students looking for a comprehensive, engaging, and highly interactive approach to training

  • Anyone looking to pursue a career in data analysis or business intelligence

Taught by

Wayne Bowden

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