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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

H

Jun 5, 2022

It is very constructive and very important course for the future of data analyst career. providing practical handin experience makes it the perfect self starter and motivational course.

Thank you

BW

Sep 4, 2022

Great Course! Still some gaps between what is expected to have learned and what was actually taught as far as a couple of the charts are concerned. But overall just an absolutely WONDERFUL course.

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By The B

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Mar 28, 2022

I liked the course .

By Alpesh M

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Jan 9, 2024

good for initiation

By Mohammad S

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Apr 30, 2023

Very use ful course

By Tameem I

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Aug 19, 2022

Basic info is good.

By Gaurang S

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Apr 10, 2022

excellent

By issa s

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Mar 26, 2022

helpful

By FAUSTO Z

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Aug 5, 2024

bueno

By degreeuserdf t

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May 20, 2024

Great

By Kawthar

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Apr 30, 2023

good

By Ashutosh R

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Jun 2, 2023

TY

By Timothy P

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Jan 13, 2023

Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos was the first course on the platform that disappointed me. Obviously, Excel and Cognos (which were new to me) are great tools. But I felt lost, confused, and frustrated trying to follow the lab modules - and especially the final exam. It seemed at times the provided links and instructions were not in sync with the IBM Cognos platform - as if the course was outdated. Anyway, I did learn quite a bit, but it certainly required me to figure out plenty on my own.

By Holli K

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Sep 21, 2023

Very basic- good for total beginners. Antiquated teaching methods employed, focus on recall rather than comprehnsion. Quite dated data visualization concepts. Kind of stupid to use the Excel online app, not super user friendly and not equivalent to real life Excel usage. Cannot take assessments without "signing up" for a free 7 day trial but there is never an explanation of what I am signing up for. I already have Coursera Plus so what am I signing up for?

By Abdul M B

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Jun 29, 2023

The field on the assignment submission does not seem to behave normally. Whenever I type something in it, the cursor will always move to the end of the value, not to mention often characters I typed will eventually gone, so I have to type the character/letter again.

Cognos seems to have an issue too. It runs frustratingly slow and often does not respond.

By Andrea P

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Mar 25, 2023

The instructions for how to navigate Cognos need to be carefully reviewed and updated as some of them seem like they are no longer accurate.

Also, the narrator for the Cognos videos speaks way too fast and mumbles through a lot of the words. Please change the narrator. In comparison, the narrator in the Excel videos is far superior for learning.

By Dmitriy A

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Dec 2, 2022

The Excel part of the course is excellent. Easy to understand, easy to try, easy to remember.

The Cognos part of the course is a disaster. The problem in the Labs 4, 5, and 6 was known more than a year ago and wasn't solved for all this time. It seems like the person who created the Labs didn't prepare well.

By Marta M

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Feb 14, 2023

The datasets for the Labs are full of errors and need some manipulation if you are outside of US. The assistants were not too helpful in solving these issues. A better dataset and/or a word of warning would make the exercises less frustrating and the whole course experience much better.

By Pankova _

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Oct 25, 2023

The interface is not modern. Knowledge seems basic, but the way of it sharing is a bit boring: just PPTX slides without animation. Task for very very begginers: first task was "we will teach you how to log in in Office". Frankly speaking, it is not the level, that I expected.

By Kevin J

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Aug 7, 2023

Doesn't get much in depth. You drag things on the canvas, or double click things - but you don't learn much of the theory of why you're choosing those types of charts, or why you're creating those analyses. It's more of a "do what I just did" demonstration course.

By Nataniel D

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Apr 26, 2021

I had difficulties to access Cognos Analytics. I think the links provided in the course are not refreshed with the address being used now by IBM. I may be wrong but this is for now my diagnosis. But, in the veral the course was very useful for me.

Thank you so much

By Katy

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May 13, 2021

The course itself is good, however it's annoying that the final assignment is peer reviewed so if someone mistakenly gives you a wrong score you can't dispute it because there's no way to contact a Coursera representative and ask them to amend the grade.

By Omni C

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Jul 28, 2022

Very informative, I think IBM cognos is pretty intensely complicated if you're completely new, I think It could have used much more indepth explanation especially for the final assignment. Hope to grow more comfortable with IBM cognos in the future.

By Lori T

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Sep 30, 2022

"The Cognos hands on labs were frustrating because some of the steps didn't have screenshots as they asked you to do them and just assumed you knew where tools were for your first time using it. Sometimes it didn't work the way explained either."

By Cyara M

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Jul 13, 2024

It seems outdated, the course materials are not uploaded into a separate directory in the course materials or resources, making them often difficult to find. The Cognos demonstration was critically inadequate.

By Anu V

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Aug 21, 2024

Content is outdated, and instructions are very vague and incorrect at times. I had issues completing the peer graded work, and had to find workarounds to be able to pass the course.

By Xiaoyang X

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May 8, 2023

Wish that the course could spend more time teaching visualization tools that are more widely used in industry instead of Cognos. Not a lot of companies use Cognos.