Learner Reviews & Feedback for Excel Basics for Data Analysis by IBM

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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

Jul 30, 2025

Many of the commands explained in the videos or on the exercises are outdated, especially in the pivots section. I struggled to find its equivalent in Excel 365. Please update whatever is needed.

May 25, 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!

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By Vijay S

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Oct 1, 2023

Great fundamental course with good exercises to practice especially Data cleaning!

By Jakub P

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Mar 23, 2023

I enjoyed this training. It was to the point and use cases and used data are great

By ROBERTO O C

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Mar 17, 2023

Es muy bueno, aprendes demasiado pero necesitas tiempo para entenderlo y aplicarlo

By Bala D

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Feb 15, 2023

It is a basic course for those who are willing to work in the data analysis field.

By Arnold N

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Feb 6, 2022

This is an insightful, well organized and hands on skills course in Data Analytics

By Mostafa A

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Jun 5, 2021

Structured Approached course, easily understood, in depth info and guided practice

By Renuka K

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Apr 17, 2025

five star. I excited to get proffessional certificate of excel for data analysis.

By Francisca B B

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Feb 21, 2024

Enseña los básicos de excel y los no tan básicos para quienes ya lo han utilizado

By Abdulwaheed T

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Aug 22, 2023

This course is indeed awesome, packed with practical questions for self-practice.

By Peter M C G

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May 20, 2023

Very detailed course. I enjoyed the video instructions and the hands-on exercise.

By Sumayya B

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Oct 16, 2022

Excellent course. very easy to follow. Finally learned how to use pivot tables !

By Rasheed O

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Sep 18, 2022

This course is the best method to start and best practice to learn Data Analyst.

By Bernard A

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Aug 9, 2022

Very well structured and taught to the understanding of even beginners. Excellent

By Phước T P

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Nov 26, 2021

This coursera helped me understand and operation with data via Excel application.

By Shubham B

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Jun 25, 2021

easy to understand. Lucid explanation both in hands-on sheets and video tutorials

By Bonu M

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Aug 10, 2023

This course gave me the required background in using MS Excel for data analysis.

By Temiremi A

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May 7, 2023

Excellent experience , Thank you Coursera. The journey has only just started!

By Maria O

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Nov 12, 2022

It's a nice course. I really learnt a lot. All the tutors did an incredible job.

By Nalini V

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May 14, 2025

This Course was very informative, precise and easy to learn. Thanks to coursera

By P S P

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Aug 25, 2024

Great course to get an Idea and Hands on practice knowledge on Excel. Thank you

By Robert Z

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Mar 29, 2023

Great introduction to Excel Basics with interesting and ready to use exercises.

By Joy I N

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Aug 22, 2022

it was an engaging course that would enable you sharpen your critical reasoning

By Anil S

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May 22, 2022

Additional feature learnt during this course. Also the practice example helped.

By Faiz N H

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Jan 27, 2022

My opinion this course is usefully and worth it become prepare to data analysis