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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

JR

Sep 26, 2022

Overall this was a refresher for me. I was able to reconnect with some of the Excel functions and can now apply those to my current job. The teachings and exercises I found useful and easy to follow.

FK

May 24, 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 cecilia b

Nov 8, 2023

I would like to commend my Excel Basics' Professor Steve Ryan my heartfelt gratitude for him and his team. its an amazing exploration in learning Excel. I had proven my resilience in following instructions and making the processes worth knowing, until now it is as if there is something pushing me on to go farther. Thank you so much Coursera Excel basics!!! I want to give you 5 stars!

By Shilpa K

Jul 5, 2021

Dear IBM Instructors and Team,

I am thankful of IBM for this concise and focused course to understand basic as well as advance functions for Data Analyst. I am thankful to all instructors as I am feeling confident to apply knowledge I gained to ease my journey as a Data Analyst. It was very easy to understand.

I am very happy and will look forward to learn more from you.

Shilpa

By Roy R

Apr 6, 2023

Since I haven't really explored that much the Excel Online, I'm glad this course allowed me to do so and discover some of its unique advantages over the desktop. The topics allowed me to dig deep as well some of the many useful functionalities and tools of excel. Will continue to explore some of the unchartered functions this spreadsheet has to do my own data analysis.

By Hossein J

Jun 19, 2023

It was a well-designed course.

These are meant to help develop ML system.

I realize this was a Basic course.

It would be nice if there was very simple and basic topic as how data can be used in ML and AI.

That would encourage students to want to learn even more.

In general, the course was nicely presented with good examples. I learned a lot.

Thank you.

Hossein

By Roshani M J

Dec 5, 2022

IBM Excel Basics for Data Analysis Course helped me a lot. It has quick short to the point videos which are easy to understand and brings your complete attention.

It has reviews section where industry experts share their reviews on a Data Analysis & how they use this tool in everyday life.

This Course is a must do.

Thanks IBM for bringing such content.

By camilo r

Aug 14, 2024

Me esta gustando mucho la certificación y sus cursos, es un reto ya que no se Ingles pero vamos aprendiendo poco a poco, ya trabajo en relación con datos entonces se vuelve un poco más ágil y ya conozco varias herramientas de Excel entonces no es tan complejo, pero excelente la certificación gracias por ayudarme a encaminarme como analista de datos

By Gabriel R Q

May 29, 2022

Its a pretty good curse for begginers, it teach you the basics, in my case i worked in an investment fund and before i used to clean the data completely manually , now i can use some new fuctions and use many diferent excel options that i did'nt know, basically what it used to take me 3 hours daily i just refresh the pivot table and is done.

By Oluwatosin E B

May 28, 2023

As a novice in data analysis, I enrolled into this course with so much expectations. Having completed this course my knowledge and skill set for data analysis has broaden and I am eager to build on the foundation I have received from this training.

Thanks to Coursera and their partners for bringing knowledge closer than we can imagine.

By Polaki T

Jul 4, 2023

Even if you are a beginner, wanna learn excel and do some data analysis then boom! you are at the right place. This course provides with some worksheets helps you understand better how to apply the formulas and all, last section which is scrutinizing other peers worksheet and giving marks accordingly is super fun...

By Rodrigo R

Mar 29, 2022

Absolutely, Coursera gives us only the best courses. I'm so impressed with that awesome platform. In this course “ Excel Basics for Data Analysis” the instructor provides a very clear explanation, you will get valuable and interesting things. It exceeded my expectations so far. I strongly recommend the course.

By Agbabiaka I

Mar 10, 2022

The course has been wonderful. Though interesting and challenging. I have learned a lot during the course and I appreciate all the instructors that took their time to attend to me during the training. I am so grateful for the knowledge I acquired during the training. It has been awesome. I love you all.

By Jason L

Feb 23, 2022

¡Muy buen curso! Es excelente para comenzar de cero, ya que no solo hace un recorrido práctico por Excel, sino que también por aproximaciones "teóricas" relativas a la importancia de la confidencialidad, privacidad y calidad de los datos, complementadas por comentarios de Analistas de datos seri@s.

By Nwankwo C C

May 11, 2023

This is a great course for everybody, the hands on the lab are there to make you understand everything.

its not just for data analyst alone every one working with a system needs this super knowledge. it has helped me a lot in my secretarial job. thanks to Coursera, thanks to my Instructors

By YASIR M J

Aug 6, 2022

Outstanding course, although I am using Microsoft Excel for a long time but have many deficiencies. This is a very useful course for me to learn some basic as well as advanced functions of Microsoft Excel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and providing us an opportunity to learn this stuff.

By Ishtiaq H A

Jan 28, 2022

If any ever asked me to recommend a course on Excel, then I would recommend them that the best course on the internet so far to learn Excel would be IBM"s Excel Basics for Data Analysis, and IBM"s Data Visualizations with Excel and Cognos which are both available on Coursera.

Great work!!!

By Sephtania P A

Nov 21, 2024

Worth taking class for someone who intend to understand microsoft excel better, even more for people who the goal is becoming a data analyst, the videos in the course are easy to understand, all those excercise also help in understanding the material better, 5 out of 5, no exxagerate.

By Anastasiya

Sep 16, 2023

I would like more clarification with the formulas. Because the formulas that are presented in the tasks are in Excel, Exel Web does not see them. As a result, you cannot complete the task that is so easily shown in the video. As a result, copying these formulas does not work.

By Tariq A G

Apr 7, 2022

Wonderful course to learn Excel Basics for data analysis. i have learned alot in this course. from cleaning , filtering, using functions and formulas, conditional formating, custom formating and Pivote Tables. Content of this course was very simple and easy to understand.

By Christine M

Oct 5, 2021

Great course which goes faster and is more fun than the first course because it has labs and students are able to actually work with excel. The slides and videos were more to the point and even outlined a little better than the first course so I gave this course 5 stars.

By Tried M

Jun 4, 2021

Wow! I am so excited. This course just opened a whole new page of Skills and opportunities for me. I love the simple yet profound model of instruction throughout the course. If you are considering getting a great deal of Excel Basics for Data Analysis, this is it.

By lcruz916

Apr 19, 2022

Totally helpful course for those wanting to start a Career in Data Analysis, remember this is and will be one of the most demanded jobs now and future so adapt yourself. My other motivation was also for personal use, that way you will get to practice more often

By SONA N T

Apr 9, 2023

I was using Excel for different applications, but was not sure about the shortcuts and the usage of different options available in it. I hope this will help learners to have knowledge from the scratch. Thank you and huge shout out to the makers of the course.

By Diego D

Jul 31, 2024

A very interesting course for beginner user of Excel. Actually, the course covers everything you need in the real life: as a junior or senior data analyst, nobody will ask you more than a pivot table, a sum or vlooklike. I recommend this course for anybody.

By SANDRA A

Feb 23, 2022

The content is very easy to grasp and understand, even for a beginer. The content is well structured and the practice sheets are the best because you actually get to work on some data making it easy to check if you actually can apply the work in practical.

By Daniela V

Mar 8, 2022

Para personas que nunca han manejado Excel, es un curso muy bueno, Yo lo realice como parte de un certificado profesional. La metodología, los laboratorios, el contenido son muy practicos, amigables y faciles de entender. Me encantan los cursos d coursera.