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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

AR

Nov 26, 2021

Excellent course, all the videos and material on point, a lot to practice, i did many courses and specializations and this one is excellent in so many aspects, i put it like a role model.

IK

Sep 22, 2023

I really enjoyed and learned new skills. it's awesome... Thanks instructors. I am thankful to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for providing scholarship for this Courera license.

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By Maria P

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Jan 30, 2022

I love this course so much!! it has got tips and tricks which you can tweak your dashboard to make it looks more interesting!

By Carlos A N H

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Mar 27, 2023

Excellent course, one of the best on the subject. Very practical and didactic, enriching in knowledge, I fully recommend it.

By JUAN A F D L C

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Nov 23, 2022

la plataforma coursera es fantástica, deberían agregar la traducción al español para que sea lo máximo en enseñanza virtual.

By Eduardo B

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May 12, 2021

Excellent course. Well designed and presented. I can use the skills learned immediately in my new career as a Data Analyst.

By Oriana M G

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Sep 10, 2023

Excellent course. It is very well built with a very good teachers and practice materials. I really learned useful skills.

By Mathieu M

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Oct 7, 2022

After this transformative journey, I come with a brand new understanding of Excel. Thanks a lot for this great content.

By Samuel O

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Feb 1, 2023

the course is fully packaged with quality videos, quality sound, great tution and one of the best courses on coursera

By Luca C

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Jun 18, 2022

Really interesting and complete coursse about data visualisation and techniques to build explicative charts in Excel.

By Diego A A G

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Jan 14, 2022

Very complete course of data visualization in excel. I would recommend it for those who want to improve their excel.

By امجد خ ع

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Jul 3, 2023

Vey Intresting and Highly recommended for anyone want to understand everything about Data Visualization using Excel

By Carlos A V Z

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Sep 30, 2023

great for what I was looking for, now I feel totally confident in showing concrete results of my research at work

By Md. Z I

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Dec 25, 2022

This course is extraordinarily rich. This is a perfect step to learn to visualize your data. Thanks, Coursera.

By Francisco L R

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May 3, 2022

This is an excellent course for intermediate users of Excel who want to proficiency their visualization skills

By DEBABRATA P

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Feb 16, 2023

With easy to understand, and vivid description of theory, and some practice, it was a time worth enjoying!!!

By kasra m

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Jul 13, 2021

This course is absoulotely practical.

Instructors are very professional and use a simple methods to teach

By Mohammad S

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Aug 12, 2023

They are the best. I promise that this course would be one of the most useful courses that you can enroll

By Issa D

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Feb 8, 2022

The Best Course I have attended. The structure of this course enforce you to practice what you learned.

By Hrithik M

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Oct 20, 2022

Very informative and detailed course, the visualization are amazing. Thanks for making such content.

By Matthew E

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Aug 1, 2022

Yet another great offering. Easy to follow tutorials and great practical and relatable exercises/tests

By Hui-Chun C

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Sep 29, 2022

This course is very informative and both the instructors are knowledgeable about the course content.

By András L S

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Mar 27, 2021

Very high quality course as always, the tests had some mistakes but nothing that would cause problems

By Suraj K P

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Aug 8, 2021

This course is an excellent platform to learn Excel data visualization from basic to advanced level.

By John M

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Apr 5, 2021

Very interesting course that taught me a lot of different ways to display data in interactive ways.

By Mohammad S

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Jul 7, 2022

Brilliant course, I learnt a lot from this course. Thanks a lot to instructors for their efforts.

By Javed A

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Mar 9, 2023

Best Course on the globe.

Mind Blowing

Absolutely brilliant

Amazing course

Hats off to Instructors