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About the Course

In an age now driven by "big data", we need to cut through the noise and present key information in a way that can be quickly consumed and acted upon making data visualization an increasingly important skill. Visualizations need to not only present data in an easy to understand and attractive way, but they must also provide context for the data, tell a story, achieving that fine balance between form and function. Excel has many rivals in this space, but it is still an excellent choice, particularly if it's where your data resides. It offers a wealth of tools for creating visualizations other than charts and the chart options available are constantly increasing and improving, so the newer versions now include waterfall charts, sunburst diagrams and even map charts. But what sets Excel apart is its flexibility, it gives us total creative control over our designs so if needed we could produce our own animated custom chart to tell the right story for our data. Over five weeks we will explore Excel's rich selection of visualization tools using practical case studies as seen through the eyes of Rohan, an environmental analyst. Rohan is required to produce visualizations that will show trends, forecasts, breakdowns and comparisons for a large variety of environmental data sets. As well as utilising the usual chart types he wants to use conditional formats, sparklines, specialised charts and even create his own animated charts and infographics. In some cases, he will also need to prepare the data using pivot tables to drill down and answer very specific questions. We are going to help him achieve all this and present our finished visualizations in attractive reports and dashboards that use tools like slicers and macros for automation and interactivity. These are the topics we will cover: Week 1: Dynamic visualizations with conditional formatting, custom number formatting, sparklines and macros Week 2: Charting techniques for telling the right story Week 3: Creating specialised and custom charts Week 4: Summarising and filtering data with pivot tables and pivot charts Week 5: Creating interactive dashboards in Excel This is the second course in our Specialization on Data Analytics and Visualization. The first course: Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis, covers data preparation and cleaning but also teaches some of the prerequisites for this course like tables and named ranges as well as text, lookup and logical functions. To get the most out of this course we would recommend you do the first course or have experience with these topics. In this course we focus on Data Visualization in Excel, join us for this exciting journey....

Top reviews

CO

Jul 5, 2024

even if I'm a seasoned Excel power user, I learned a few tricks that I didn't know - it filled the few holes I had in my Excel knowledge

CD

Mar 29, 2024

The course content was excellent however the rushed pace of the videos made it loose spontaneity and flow with constant stopping and rewinding non conducive to learning.

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By Thitiwat

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Jun 23, 2021

Thank you all instructors!

By Andrew E

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Jun 25, 2022

Really enjoyed the course

By Keshav G

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Jan 21, 2022

Great Course! Thanks :)

By Juan D A G

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Jun 22, 2021

What a great course!!!!!

By Naglaa F I

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Aug 9, 2021

Great Course, thank you

By Brandan S

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Aug 29, 2023

It is a great course.

By AKSHAY R

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May 29, 2021

Thank you so much :)

By Lori M

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Oct 11, 2022

Exceptional course!

By Vinicius d S M

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Aug 30, 2022

Really good course!

By Melquiades M R

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Jan 18, 2024

I love this course

By Alexis A

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Sep 6, 2021

Excellent Course!

By Alfredo A P

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Jun 29, 2025

Excellent course

By Subhash K

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Aug 14, 2023

Very good course

By MUHAMMAD Z H

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Apr 22, 2023

very nice course

By bounphet t

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Mar 29, 2023

very good course

By Nelson L

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Feb 3, 2023

very good course

By Jesús A S H

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Dec 21, 2022

Excelente curso.

By Md. J A J

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Dec 13, 2023

Amazing lesson.

By Mitesh P J

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Dec 3, 2021

Very Very Good.

By Gideon F

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Jul 15, 2021

VERY INSIGHTFUL

By Charlotte K

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Jul 1, 2021

VERY INSIGHTFUL

By David O A

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Jun 30, 2021

Very insightful

By Antonija P

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Jul 22, 2024

Great course!!

By Collins O

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Feb 27, 2023

GREAT DELIVERY

By Waqas M

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Feb 16, 2023

Happy to learn