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About the Course

Learn how to create data visualizations and dashboards using spreadsheets and analytics tools. This course covers some of the first steps for telling a compelling story with your data using various types of charts and graphs. You'll learn the basics of visualizing data with Excel and IBM Cognos Analytics without having to write any code. You'll start by creating simple charts in Excel such as line, pie and bar charts. You will then create more advanced visualizations with Treemaps, Scatter Charts, Histograms, Filled Map Charts, and Sparklines. Next you’ll also work with the Excel PivotChart feature as well as assemble several visualizations in an Excel dashboard. This course also teaches you how to use business intelligence (BI) tools like Cognos Analytics to create interactive dashboards. By the end of the course you will have an appreciation for the key role that data visualizations play in communicating your data analysis findings, and the ability to effectively create them. Throughout this course there will be numerous hands-on labs to help you develop practical experience for working with Excel and Cognos. There is also a final project in which you’ll create a set of data visualizations and an interactive dashboard to add to your portfolio, which you can share with peers, professional communities or prospective employers....

Top reviews

Aug 13, 2021

This course was not easy, I have never used IBM Cognos before. I was nervous logging into it and making sure I am doing it right. I end up using 2 monitors to see what I am doing.

Mar 18, 2024

In general the course was great. The only thing is that for very beginners is really difficult to grasp even after a few attempts, therefore instructions should be broken down more in detail.

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By Q_ C

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Oct 24, 2023

Cognos makes data a readable story. Easy to follow and learn. Highly useful.

By Amzat B

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Oct 5, 2023

A tough but well explained course. Thanks to to the Instructors and Coursera

By Muhammad W

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Oct 5, 2025

Very simple but full of knowledge course. Hats off to the course designers.

By Azzouz B

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Jul 8, 2024

The course is very good. Very useful for mastering charts in data analysis

By Voula O

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Aug 13, 2022

Great course I learn a lot about data visualisation - Ibm cognos analytics

By Jakub P

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Mar 27, 2023

Very informative and nice way to get to know other softwate then PowerBi

By Yeshini A

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Jan 10, 2025

Since I have done a project and payments why didn’t I get a certificate?

By WILLIAM M

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Oct 19, 2024

Es una maravilla la forma para desarrollar tareas con paneles muy buenos

By Hassan H

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Jul 21, 2023

Been Educative especially with the amount of available data for practice

By Msmkhan

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Oct 14, 2022

Love this course , Specially love to build dashboard on cognos analytic.

By Venkatesh B

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Dec 11, 2021

Such a wonderful course for budding data analysts. Keep up the good work

By Juan M

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Jan 9, 2023

Excellent material but and little challenging to complete assignments.

By Igor S

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Aug 13, 2021

Thank you very much. Agreat opportunity to try both - excel and cognos.

By Karen T

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Jun 18, 2025

Loving this course. Very informative and love the labs! They help alot

By mark K

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Oct 9, 2023

The learning was excellent and the demos and practice was very helpful

By António C S G

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Apr 17, 2022

This course gives you all the fundamentals for working with dashboards

By Michael H

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Nov 24, 2021

The scaffolding in these courses continues to be excellent. Thank you.

By Ma. T S I

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May 8, 2023

This is a good starter for learning the IBM Cognos. Love this course!

By Lori A C

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Oct 25, 2022

Great instruction. Great course. Loved learning to build dashboards.

By Olusayo A

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Dec 5, 2021

A great place to get started with the rudiments. A wealth of resource

By Rohan R

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May 18, 2021

It was Great Learning. Thanks to IBM for creating such a good course.

By marta l a

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Nov 3, 2023

Ha sido un curso genial. Combina muy bien la teoria con la práctica

By Girmay T

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Dec 20, 2021

Excellent Hand-on Data Visualization using advanced analytics tools

By prerita b

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Jul 22, 2023

perfect,no words because i learned so many things with perfection.

By Matt W

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Jan 6, 2023

Very easy to understand explanation of Cognos and how to navigate.