Data Literacy and Introduction to Data Analysis using Excel
Skill Path
Gain the skills you need to analyze and visualize data using Microsoft Excel. In this path, you will learn how to identify trends, communicate key insights to stakeholders, and help your organization make data-driven decisions.
- Beginner friendly
- 2 months (5 hrs/week)
- Self paced
- 5 Courses
- 4 projects
Overview of Excel courses
Excel skills you'll learn
- ✓ Defining, Categorizing, and evaluating data
- ✓ Identifying data uses in everyday business
- ✓ Organizing data for data analysis
- ✓ Defining the key steps of the data analysis process
Outline of Excel courses
1 steps · 5 courses
Introduction to Data Analysis with Excel [5 courses]
Learn core data concepts and how to apply them using Microsoft Excel's powerful analysis tools.
- Course 1
Introduction to Data Analysis in Excel
3hApply foundational data analysis concepts in Excel to organize information, interpret data, and support informed decision-making.
Course Objectives ▾
- Define, categorize, and evaluate data
- Identify ways data is used in business and everyday life
- Organize data
- Describe key steps of the data analysis process
- Course 2
Preparing Data in Excel
6hPrepare datasets for analysis by importing, organizing, cleaning, and consolidating data in Excel spreadsheets.
Course Objectives ▾
- Import data into an Excel spreadsheet from more than one data source
- Organize data into a spreadsheet using worksheets and tables
- Clean, manipulate, and modify the data
- Consolidate the data for analysis
- Course 3
Visualizing Data in Excel
5hDesign clear and informative data visualizations in Excel by selecting appropriate chart types and applying visual design principles for your audience.
Course Objectives ▾
- Visualize data using pie, column, histogram, line, scatter, and combo charts
- Select the appropriate data visualization
- Create charts using design principles
- Design visualizations for your intended audience
- Course 4
Exploring Data in Excel
4hExplore and summarize datasets in Excel by applying descriptive statistics and visualizations to uncover patterns and insights.
Course Objectives ▾
- Define descriptive statistics
- Identify the different types of descriptive statistics
- Identify when to use each descriptive statistic
- Apply and compare different descriptive statistics to a single column, to multiple columns, and to groups of data
- Create visualizations to explore and analyze data
- Course 5
Analyzing Data in Excel
5hAnalyze datasets in Excel using PivotTables, time-series analysis, visualizations, and regression to uncover business insights.
Course Objectives ▾
- Analyze data and discover business insights using PivotTables
- Identify trends over time in time-series data
- Summarize and visualize relationships between categorical and quantitative variables
- Confirm a relationship between an independent and dependent variable using linear regression
- Estimate the sensitivity of an output to given inputs
Excel projects you'll build
4 hands-on projects across the path
Preparing Data with Excel
For this project, you'll take on the role of a data professional in a marine biology research organization. You'll use Excel to import, organize and clean a dataset on shark attacks, preparing it for an analysis team to study trends in attack location and frequency over time.
Identifying Customers Likely to Churn for a Telecommunications Provider
For this project, you'll act as a data analyst for a telecommunications company. You'll use Excel to explore customer data and build profiles of those likely to churn, applying statistics, PivotTables and charts.
Visualizing the Answer to Stock Questions Using Spreadsheet Charts
For this project, you'll step into the shoes of a business analyst to explore historical stock market data using Excel. By applying information design concepts, you'll create compelling visualizations and craft an insightful report - building in-demand skills for communicating data-driven insights.
Analyzing Retail Sales
For this project, we'll take on the role of an analyst for a chain of retail stores to explore sales performance across categories and over time using Excel.
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