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About the Course

Spreadsheet tools like Excel are an essential tool for working with data - whether for data analytics, business, marketing, or research. This course is designed to give you a basic working knowledge of Excel and how to use it for analyzing data. This course is suitable for those who are interested in pursuing a career in data analysis or data science, as well as anyone looking to use Excel for data analysis in their own domain. No prior experience with spreadsheets or coding is required - all you need is a device with a modern web browser and the ability to create a Microsoft account to access Excel online at no cost. If you have a desktop version of Excel, you can also easily follow along with the course. Throughout this course, you'll gain valuable experience working with data sets and spreadsheets. We'll start by introducing you to spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and show you how to load data from multiple formats. From there, you'll learn how to perform basic data wrangling and cleansing tasks using functions, and expand your knowledge of data analysis through the use of filtering, sorting, and pivot tables. There is a strong focus on practice and applied learning in this course. With each lab, you'll have the opportunity to manipulate data and gain hands-on experience using Excel. You'll learn how to clean and format your data efficiently, and convert it into a pivot table to make it more organized and readable. The final project will allow you to showcase your newly acquired data analysis skills by working with real data sets and spreadsheets. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid foundation in using Excel for data analysis. You'll have worked with multiple data sets and spreadsheets, and will have the skills and knowledge needed to effectively clean and analyze data without having to learn any code. So let's get started!...

Top reviews

FK

May 24, 2022

Wow, the practical (Hands on ) part is a boom! How did the course disigner/ instructor and the rest of the team involved manage to do that?

Also the review part....so well done and easy to follow!

JR

Sep 26, 2022

Overall this was a refresher for me. I was able to reconnect with some of the Excel functions and can now apply those to my current job. The teachings and exercises I found useful and easy to follow.

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By Yazid S B S

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Oct 30, 2021

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By Kenneth N

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Oct 21, 2024

The Instructions were really good. As an experienced excel user, they explained the most useful info in a fast and informative way. The Graded quizzes were bad though. Asked questions for things that got explained in the next part or asked in a way that wasn't clear what was meant precisely. It was more a pain than actual knowledge control And even the final Assignment. You had to write yes, got the pasting warning the whole time and then couldn't even submit it twice because the answer was not long enough.. Additionally the peer review solution showed a screenshot that couldn't exist, because the prompt afterwards changed it. In Addition to giving info that changed later as well (deleting rows + deleting duplicates later)

By Brandon B

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Mar 7, 2024

Super basic. You could probably learn more by watching a couple of videos on YouTube. All the videos in this course are using Excel Desktop, but then for the labs it wants you to use Excel Online since that is free and everyone can use it. It would be better if they just used the desktop version for everything and say that you can use the online version if you want. It notes there are slight differences between the online version and the desktop version, but there are already differences between the online version they used in screenshots versus the online version that is used now since it is constantly updated.

By Jarosław K

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May 5, 2022

The course itself was ok, though indeed very basic. However the final assignment was quite frustrating. Some instructions related to Excel on the web were inaccurate (probably outdated). Moreover, the assignment required to use Remove Duplicates, where the table have not got any unique row identifier. Due to that it was impossible to remove duplicates that way and people should not be graded for this point.

By Yoscar O

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Nov 30, 2021

The course is helpful, particularly if you have never really used pivot tables. The course would benefit from visual examples (screenshots) in the hands on labs descriptions. Additionally, some of the methodology for removing duplicates should be revised. Teaching users to remove duplicates on a single variable or non-identifier variable can lead to erroneous deletion of data.

By DJ B

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Mar 27, 2022

The big knock of the cert program is the absence of real peer discussion and the hollow semblance of providing something like that at the very beginning. When a learner encounters natural difficulties, we have only our individual means to figure them out. That indicates to me a very plausible reason why an entry-level cert program only has a 30% new career rate.

By Simarjeet S

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Jun 22, 2024

I recently completed the free Coursera course on Data Analytics for Excel Basics, and it was incredibly informative and practical. The instructors were engaging, and the hands-on exercises really reinforced my learning. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to build a strong foundation in data analytics using Excel.

By Brenda V

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Mar 22, 2024

la trducción falla en varios momentos por lo que no permite la mejor comprensión, sobretodo en las formulas y en cuanto a los examenes al tener conocimiento del idioma pude superar las dificultades pero una persona con un nivel bajo en ingles puede verse frustrada

By Viktoriia P

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Apr 18, 2021

In the part of the course where excel functions are explained, there is no explanation as to what should this functions include. In Hands-on Labs there are only instructions what to write but no explanation as to what these things stand for.

By Duane B

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Mar 24, 2022

Videos very informative, alot of informatiion in each section. Maybe it can be broken down a little more to be more easily understood, the hands on excersises were a bit confusing and jumbled for me. Tried my best with the Finals.

By Maciek F

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Jun 28, 2023

Course is overall okay and I learnedo some useful skills. I didn't like automatic voiceover and I was under impression that whole narration is quite chaotic. There are better courses on Coursera I am attending right now.

By Lucie

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Oct 18, 2021

In the final assignment it is confusing that one is supposed to download a new file for part 2 - I did all the analysis on the resulting clean file from part 1 and because of this I did not get a full score....

By Felipe R

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Feb 26, 2021

Good class if you have never used MS Excel before. It should be called "Excel Basics". Period. Nothing is "Data Analysis" specific. This should be a prerequisite for the certification, not a mandatory class.

By Fiona

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Aug 5, 2024

AI review should be an option for all courses in Coursera. Peer reviewing is not trustworthy, and often done incorrectly, which is unfair to the person submitting their work, not to mention frustrating.

By Shubham V (

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Jul 12, 2023

It's good, covers all excel basics; but it does get a little fast and explanations become a little shallow around Pivot Tables. For an absolutely new excel beginner, the course might seem a bit daunting

By Lisa H

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Oct 27, 2022

#1.Needs more thorough explanations on some of the complicated formulas such as the use of quotations, etc.

#2. The instructions in the Graded Assignment 1 were not clear.

By Doaa M

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Jan 15, 2022

Some thigs are not described in a good way , the pivot tables description was so disturbing , I took some others course who described the pivot table in better ways.

By Janeen W

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Oct 8, 2021

The course was very informative, but does need more succinct language to better understand the steps. I do have a concern on which version of Excel is needed.

By NEGUSSIE G

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Jan 25, 2021

A very light and limited content. Index and Match, error checking, etc.. are not covered. But the instructor has a very good teaching skills

By Estitxu L

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Dec 30, 2020

Course was OK but labs weren't very useful. The instructions were too literal with little to none explanations of the purpose of each step.

By Syed I B S A

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May 9, 2021

It would have been much better if all the worksheets in the videos were made available so students could follow along with the video

By Felipe F

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Oct 25, 2024

Too few practice exercises and the ones that the course have, are very disapointing. Just checking the boxes wont make anyone learn

By Claudio S

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Jan 22, 2024

its a good initial course, i thougth it would be dipper than it were, but is very useful to consolidate basic concept

By Delfin B S C

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Jul 2, 2023

Los trabajos deberían tener una revision de los profesores, alguien evaluo mal mi trabajo y lo tuve que reenviar.