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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!...

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Great course, even for those people that are using Excel every day, this course shows quite a few different ways to improve your abilities to present the data and best practices for cleaning dat.

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Really good and useful course to get more familiar with Excel. I wish there was better feedback to/from peers on the last assignment and how to grade... But that is just a minor opinion of mine :)

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By Jill F

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I'm an experienced Excel user, but this course introduced me to some new tricks, such as the use of Flash Fill and the SUMIF function that will be helpful. If you're relatively new to Excel, you should find this course very satisfying.

A few things such as VLOOKUP are touched on too briefly. The pivot table segment is a good intro, but more detail is needed to explain WHY you might want to construct your table in a particular way. Complementary reference materials would be helpful.

The course is oriented toward data analysis in the business sector. Wish there was more consideration of Excel use in research contexts.

The lab activities allow you to try out the features covered in the course, and help familiarize you with concepts, but more depth would be needed to develop proficiency.

I'd love to see this course provide examples of how to document the "data cleaning and wrangling" steps in Excel. This seems like an important omission to address.

The assignments and grading process are straightforward and relatively easy to complete. It would be great to offer optional assignments for folks like me who are eager for more advanced exercises.

By Stace S

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Aug 6, 2024

The course is broadly good. However, some of the differences between expected behaviors between some basic Excel functions like the age old File>Save or Save As and some of the newer MS 365 "rename" vs the need to download your work from the cloud in order to then upload it again for grading can be less than intuitive. This problem is compounded by the fact that such differences are characterized as minor in the course lectures. While that might be the case, the differences between the modern MS 365 functionality is deviating rapidly enough from those of older, local Office installation versions shown for lecture examples that the course appears to need an overhaul to keep things consistent. I did learn quite a bit, particularly in the area of pivot tables which I had thought to be more complex than they actually are.

By Daniel J N C

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Jul 27, 2021

An informative and practical course. I have enjoyed it. One big negative is the peer review as some people don't take the time to properly assess your work and you get marked down when you shouldn't. There are also a few flaws with the marking rubic examples which confuse people. I'd love the opportunity to discuss these with the course providers but I can't find any way of contacting them. If you come across the same problem, try resubmitting your work, it will be reviewed again by someone new and hopefully by someone who understands the marking scheme properly. It worked for me.

By Shreya D

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Aug 11, 2023

I'm truly grateful for the "Excel Basics for Data Analysis" course, which significantly enhanced my skills despite my prior Excel knowledge. The well-structured content empowered me to understand new dimensions of Excel's functionalities, boosting my confidence in real-world applications. This course undeniably added substantial value to my Excel proficiency. The easily understandable content immensely improved my skills and insights, invaluable for my professional growth. I wholeheartedly recommend this course for those aiming to elevate their Excel expertise.

By Nkem A

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Feb 26, 2021

Very good course however the lessons seemed less detailed towards the end when the topics equally got more complex. However the labs helps clarify a lot of things. Had a challenge with the final project because I should have had 100% based on the rubrics but the person who reviewed my work missed out some points. Though I still passed, it wasn't pleasant that there was no way to have this error corrected or reviewed without resubmitting my work and further delaying the completion of the course.