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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

LM

Jun 16, 2022

Very content with skills I learnt. However, some sections are not well explained and it seemed like the instructor was just going through them. For instance when teaching about "Flash Fill".

NS

Nov 15, 2024

the beginner level helps to improve my skill with excel, it helps a lot in my study and my career and used to be excel is a hard tool to use, now it's fun tool to use, thank you IBM - Coursera.

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By Loetizia C

Feb 24, 2026

I had an issue with a peer reviewed submission twice in this course. I was deliberately assigned a wrong grade while I should have passed.I had to retake the exam and grade other users submission another time. I reached out to the support who didn't provide any solution. Coursera does nothing against this kind of stupid and dishonest practices. It lost all credibility to me.

By Dinesh D

Mar 23, 2024

I was expecting the course to be having more advance excel features for data analysis and some troubleshooting. The course was pretty basic for someone who has not seen MS Excel in their entire life which I highly doubt exists as office is an application that's installed in almost all computers who use microsoft.

By Jorge G

Mar 8, 2022

No funcionan las partes prácticas de Excel. Un timo, un engañabobos. Una pérdida de tiempo y de dinero, lo reporté y no se arregla nada. Y te cobran igual. Le doy una estrella para poder enviar la calificación, pero obviamente se merece 0 estrellas. Lamentable.

By Tyrone B

Feb 25, 2026

Unable to download or upload the material for Option 1 or Option 2 for graded exercise under Excel Basics Data Analysis Course # 2. This is extremely frustrating and should not affect my certificate completion.

By Seth B

Jul 27, 2024

Was all good until I got charged £37 for using their 7 day free trial. This course has no obvious way to cancel the subscription, and no way to request refunds - coursera clearly knows what they are doing.

By Adil d

Mar 17, 2022

so now we are at the mercy of others !!!! we need to wait until someone review our work to complete the course .

this is ridiculous . I need this certificate why should i wait ?????

By Nrejaj D

Jan 25, 2026

Je n'ai pas apprécié ce cours - Trop de module avec des dialogues - Les exercices non pertinents - les examens avec vérification par votre IA n'est pas au point.

By Lyn L

Dec 12, 2022

Wasted an hour on trying to figure out how to submit assignment after checking and double checking did all teh readings. I'm starting to hate Coursera

By Margx C

Feb 22, 2025

People need to know that they to complete some reviews of peers' assignments before to receive your own review

By Ahmad A Y

Dec 23, 2025

You have to wait days for a review to get Certificate! Please consider before you starting with this course!

By Guturi R S N

Jan 22, 2025

I already completed 92% course but certificate is not provided otherwise the platform is useful

By David G

Oct 14, 2024

Deberían hacerlo en español, castellano. Se vuelve muy díficil con audios en inglés.

By Nidia B B

Oct 27, 2025

la falta de traducción de algunas paginas no permite comprender las evaluaciones

By Kirk R

Mar 3, 2025

Horribly written course which will make beginners confused and wanting to quit.

By Sha N s

Feb 23, 2025

THERE IS NO CERTIFICATE AFTER COMPLETION OF THE COURSE IBM DATA ANALYSIS

By Maria K

Jan 24, 2026

AI tool for reviewing final project is not working and I cant graduate

By SANTIAGO A A C

Sep 1, 2023

no tiene la version en español y no se al 100 % ingles

By Aryan S

Dec 19, 2025

very basic and my peer assignment takes a lot of time

By Sanika P

Jun 21, 2023

it wont let me complete the course till I pay/upgrade

By Kunal K

Oct 10, 2025

IT WAS NOT USEFUL AS I EXPECTED TO BE....

By Moamen A

Dec 2, 2025

I am not able to receive a certificate

By M W

Oct 9, 2024

Its just slides. No practice data.

By Etson R

Jul 23, 2024

No es apto para público en español

By Maria M

May 16, 2024

conteudo em ingles sem tradução

By Megha S

Aug 14, 2022

I cant access my certificate