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About the Course

In an age now driven by "big data", we need to cut through the noise and present key information in a way that can be quickly consumed and acted upon making data visualization an increasingly important skill. Visualizations need to not only present data in an easy to understand and attractive way, but they must also provide context for the data, tell a story, achieving that fine balance between form and function. Excel has many rivals in this space, but it is still an excellent choice, particularly if it's where your data resides. It offers a wealth of tools for creating visualizations other than charts and the chart options available are constantly increasing and improving, so the newer versions now include waterfall charts, sunburst diagrams and even map charts. But what sets Excel apart is its flexibility, it gives us total creative control over our designs so if needed we could produce our own animated custom chart to tell the right story for our data. Over five weeks we will explore Excel's rich selection of visualization tools using practical case studies as seen through the eyes of Rohan, an environmental analyst. Rohan is required to produce visualizations that will show trends, forecasts, breakdowns and comparisons for a large variety of environmental data sets. As well as utilising the usual chart types he wants to use conditional formats, sparklines, specialised charts and even create his own animated charts and infographics. In some cases, he will also need to prepare the data using pivot tables to drill down and answer very specific questions. We are going to help him achieve all this and present our finished visualizations in attractive reports and dashboards that use tools like slicers and macros for automation and interactivity. These are the topics we will cover: Week 1: Dynamic visualizations with conditional formatting, custom number formatting, sparklines and macros Week 2: Charting techniques for telling the right story Week 3: Creating specialised and custom charts Week 4: Summarising and filtering data with pivot tables and pivot charts Week 5: Creating interactive dashboards in Excel This is the second course in our Specialization on Data Analytics and Visualization. The first course: Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis, covers data preparation and cleaning but also teaches some of the prerequisites for this course like tables and named ranges as well as text, lookup and logical functions. To get the most out of this course we would recommend you do the first course or have experience with these topics. In this course we focus on Data Visualization in Excel, join us for this exciting journey....

Top reviews

IK

Sep 22, 2023

I really enjoyed and learned new skills. it's awesome... Thanks instructors. I am thankful to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for providing scholarship for this Courera license.

GB

Feb 4, 2022

Absolutely fantastic course! I've been using Excel for nearly 20 years and I cannot tell you how many times I STILL found myself saying "Oh, that's neat!" Definitely worth your time!

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By ROLANDO T

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Feb 1, 2022

Very very good course, it had a lot of the funtionalities I wanted to learn

By Leonardo A B R

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Aug 21, 2023

It's a very useful course if you work with data analysis and visualization

By Ali I

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Dec 11, 2021

Highly Recommended to everyone who is going to step in data analysis field

By Guilherme P d S

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Mar 27, 2021

Curso muito bom, bem explicado, com exemplos e exercícios na medida certa.

By Maliha T

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Apr 16, 2022

This course is very impressive. All of the videos are easy to understand.

By Steve A

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Apr 22, 2024

Great course. I've already started using this in my everyday work/life.

By AYDIN U

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Dec 26, 2021

very good experience to learn dashboarding and especialy for live charts

By Anthony W

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Oct 1, 2023

Excellent course for visualizing data. Highly recommended for analysts.

By David C

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Jul 30, 2022

Very good step-by-step explanation of almost every type of Excel graph.

By ALDEMAR L C

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Feb 8, 2025

Awesome! I felt really great after finishing it. Very complete course!

By ALMA I A G

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Nov 12, 2022

El curso es practico y bueno, las explicaciones son claras y sencillas

By Chan C M

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Jun 24, 2021

Super useful. The workbooks along with the course is well designed.

By Karina R G

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Oct 28, 2022

lots of examples, lots of practice. interesting and good presented.

By Fi A

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Aug 22, 2022

This is an excellent course with challenging practice questions 👍

By T B

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Feb 14, 2023

Very informative and useful course to use in business analytics.

By GUSTAVO A G L

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Feb 29, 2024

super agradable aprendi muchas cosas nuevas de excel y dasboard

By Osama A A

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Jul 4, 2022

though I'm excel expert , but this course add many tricks to me

By Gokul P

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Jan 8, 2023

Personally this was my favourite course and I really loved it

By Nicholas G

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Jan 4, 2023

Great course to walk you through visualization tools in excel

By Avanesyan T G

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Nov 29, 2021

The best online course I've studied! Thank you for your work!

By Itunu A

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Jan 10, 2023

It's a great course, well detailed with hands on experience.

By Xin L

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Sep 21, 2022

it is a very good course, I highly recommand you to take it

By Cary B

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Sep 12, 2022

Excellent Course! Highly recommend for every data analyst!

By Héctor S

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May 2, 2021

I didn't know you could do all this with excel. Great course

By Chien N

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Aug 28, 2021

Great course with fine techniques for Excel visualization!