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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

SK

Apr 27, 2017

good course gives a basic foundation for data analytics ! Excellent for beginners who have no idea how to use excel for want to learn systematically excel files given at every lecture are very useful.

SW

May 25, 2020

The training provided by Dr. Sharad is easy to follow and learn. Bravo and Thank you.

The level of difficulty from the quiz and the final task is just right and it is making us to think creatively.

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By Prakash G P

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Mar 2, 2021

very interactive course

By Siddhant S

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Dec 18, 2020

Great Course Structure.

By Jennifer P L

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Nov 12, 2020

Very informative course

By MD M � �

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Oct 20, 2020

Its a very nice course.

By Raghvendra K

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Oct 19, 2020

Well Written Course. :)

By Ranjana A

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Jun 11, 2020

Very interesting course

By Shubham C

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Jun 9, 2020

Really helped me a lot.

By olamilekan a

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Jan 19, 2020

Very taskful excercises

By Alexandre L

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Aug 31, 2019

Very useful, thank you.

By Dania A A

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Jul 22, 2018

very helpful and useful

By Jenny K

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Jun 5, 2018

Fantastic for beginners

By Aenon P A

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Oct 18, 2024

Informative and Useful

By Abayomi O

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Oct 13, 2022

Very excellent course

By WAHYU A K W _

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May 2, 2021

What a great course !!

By Jorge L R C

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Sep 29, 2020

aprendí mucho, gracias

By Yushan C

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Apr 19, 2020

VERY PRACTICAL, USEFUL

By Lawal A

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Mar 11, 2020

A WONDER LEARNING AREA

By Shazia S

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Apr 4, 2019

Overall helpful course

By Abhishek B

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Aug 3, 2018

brilliantly explained.

By Tyler B

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May 12, 2018

Great Excel Refresher!

By EX2 S

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Oct 2, 2017

very good description.

By Richard A

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Aug 21, 2023

Best knowledge gained

By Disha N

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Jul 16, 2023

The course is amazing

By J P

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Jul 26, 2022

Don't change a thing.

By P. J M

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Jun 29, 2022

Excellent instructor.