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About the Course

As data becomes the modern currency, so the ability to analyse the data quickly and accurately has become of paramount importance. Excel with its extraordinarily broad range of features and capabilities is one of the most widely used programs for doing this. In the first course of our Excel Skills for Data Analysis and Visualization Specialization, you will learn the fundamentals of Excel for data analysis. When you have completed the course, you will be able to use a range of Excel tools and functions to clean and prepare data for analysis; automate data analysis with the help of Named Ranges and Tables; and use logical and lookup functions to transform, link and categorise data. This course will enable you to build a strong foundation in the fundamentals, helping you to be more efficient in your day-to-day and developing the necessary skills to work with the more advanced techniques used in later courses. To make the content easy to relate to and to personalize the learning experience, we are going to follow Zara's journey through the course. Who is Zara? Well, she is no-one and everyone. You will find that Zara's trials and tribulations sound familiar, and together with Zara, you will develop your Excel skills along the way — and, importantly, have some fun doing it. The Excel Skills for Data Analytics and Visualization courses are the sequel to one of most successful specializations on Coursera, Excel Skills for Business, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of learners and top ratings. Transform your skills, your confidence, and your opportunities by adding this new set of skills to your repertoire....

Top reviews

KF

Dec 3, 2023

This is the best course I have seen in excel fundamentals on any platform. Easy to follow, many practice tests, spreadsheets and useful cheatsheets. Kudos to the instructors and Macquarie University.

FV

Jul 17, 2020

Well done. A small thing, though: in the quizzes, the grading could be made more fault-tolerant. Example: an answer such as AND(y,x) instead of AND(x,y) is deemed wrong, which borders on the nasty.

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By Abioye H

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May 23, 2022

EExcellentexcellent

By Marco L

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Mar 13, 2022

Excellent course

By MANOJ M

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Jul 13, 2020

EXCELLENT COURSE

By Deepansh P

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May 31, 2024

good experience

By David C

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Jul 30, 2022

Good but basic

By Vinit K P

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Apr 3, 2024

GREAT COURSE

By Richmond D C

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Dec 27, 2020

Very Helpful

By tareq h M

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Nov 16, 2021

Good job!

By Shreya S

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Sep 15, 2021

Its Great

By Juan P C

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Feb 18, 2021

Muy bueno

By Maria B

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Aug 31, 2021

Love it!

By shradha s

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Jan 24, 2022

AWESOME

By SHUBHANGI S

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Oct 11, 2022

good

By RENI A

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Aug 11, 2024

Good

By 21PDS809 V S

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May 20, 2022

good

By Dreamy J

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Jul 21, 2021

na

By Bibhuti b S

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Mar 6, 2021

ok

By Robert G

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Apr 21, 2022

The overall structure of the mooc is very professional with a lot of helpful supplemental content like workbooks and quick-reference sheets. Unfortunately the quizzes and assessments have certain flaws for example a solution could work perfectly fine within an Excel sheet but the assessment question only accepts one answer from a range of possible solutions. If you looking to improve your Excel skills the same provider offers the very well done specialization "Excel Skills for Business Forecasting" of course with a slightly different focus.

By Katarina H

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Dec 5, 2020

This was a great course! Very useful and well explained. However, I have noticed that there were several errors in the exam questions, which need to be corrected to avoid confusing the learners. Also, I found the exam for Week 3 much more difficult than any other exam, and that included the Final course assessment. Q1 in the Week 3 assessment should be reworded, it was very difficult to comprehend what was expected. Overall, it was a nice experience. Thank you

By johannes N

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Feb 4, 2021

difficulty in trying to run specific results when getting errors on excel meaning either there is a corrupt file being downloaded or something else causing for errors

questions aren't even correct, e.g. final assessment it asks "for the products that DO NOT SELL with a bonus" yet the answer is based on items with the bonus...without bonus the value is 308.77 or 309 with the bonus that's where you get the 41...

By Igor P

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Aug 15, 2023

The idea of the course is great. Instructors speak clear and provide important information. However, too title examples and too difficult exercises. Often, the instructions in quizzes and assessments are written too complicated and not in a human manner, like it is a task for a machine. And the given task itself not always matches with the content, provided in the lectures.

By GD R

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Oct 5, 2020

Easier than their Intermediate and advanced Excel but satisfying. Some of their wrong test problems are inexcusable as they were supposedly corrected. While the videos are well done and have great examples, this course falls short on the feedback. Even though I completed it I don't understand why some of the problems marked incorrect were indeed incorrect.

By David T A

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Sep 9, 2022

Was really well done until the last assessment that had some questionable portions about halway through it that seems many have had issues with and mentioned on the message boards which gets no response. Great concept but not sure it is being supported by anyone anymore. Least no one that bothers to help those asking for help on the message boards.

By Simón D C M

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Jul 4, 2020

Maybe is because the course is a little bit new, but I found many mistakes in the assignments, I really hope you can fix that. Also I think that some points of the assignments doesn´t contribute to my excel learning, copying and pasting some Formula just to show what is the Excel output is something that i consider unbearable.

By Jerry T

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Jan 21, 2023

The material was okay. I found I had to use other resources to complete the work and find more effective ways to solve the problems and write the functions more efficiently.

It was okay for beginning but would prefer courses with more powerpoint slides in presentation from time to time.