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课程概述

The use of Excel is widespread in the industry. It is a very powerful data analysis tool and almost all big and small businesses use Excel in their day to day functioning. This is an introductory course in the use of Excel and is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advance topics in Business Statistics later. The course is designed keeping in mind two kinds of learners - those who have very little functional knowledge of Excel and those who use Excel regularly but at a peripheral level and wish to enhance their skills. The course takes you from basic operations such as reading data into excel using various data formats, organizing and manipulating data, to some of the more advanced functionality of Excel. All along, Excel functionality is introduced using easy to understand examples which are demonstrated in a way that learners can become comfortable in understanding and applying them. To successfully complete course assignments, students must have access to a Windows version of Microsoft Excel 2010 or later. ________________________________________ WEEK 1 Module 1: Introduction to Spreadsheets In this module, you will be introduced to the use of Excel spreadsheets and various basic data functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • Reading data into Excel using various formats • Basic functions in Excel, arithmetic as well as various logical functions • Formatting rows and columns • Using formulas in Excel and their copy and paste using absolute and relative referencing ________________________________________ WEEK 2 Module 2: Spreadsheet Functions to Organize Data This module introduces various Excel functions to organize and query data. Learners are introduced to the IF, nested IF, VLOOKUP and the HLOOKUP functions of Excel. Topics covered include: • IF and the nested IF functions • VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP • The RANDBETWEEN function ________________________________________ WEEK 3 Module 3: Introduction to Filtering, Pivot Tables, and Charts This module introduces various data filtering capabilities of Excel. You’ll learn how to set filters in data to selectively access data. A very powerful data summarizing tool, the Pivot Table, is also explained and we begin to introduce the charting feature of Excel. Topics covered include: • VLOOKUP across worksheets • Data filtering in Excel • Use of Pivot tables with categorical as well as numerical data • Introduction to the charting capability of Excel ________________________________________ WEEK 4 Module 4: Advanced Graphing and Charting This module explores various advanced graphing and charting techniques available in Excel. Starting with various line, bar and pie charts we introduce pivot charts, scatter plots and histograms. You will get to understand these various charts and get to build them on your own. Topics covered include • Line, Bar and Pie charts • Pivot charts • Scatter plots • Histograms...

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KN

Jan 28, 2021

Dr Sharad has made Excel Learning very concise and easily understandable. The advanced concepts are easily understood by even beginners. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn at Rice University.

AM

Jun 2, 2020

Everything was explained in detail, even the smallest bits we don't pay attention to. Beautifully designed course, I would recommend it to anyone looking to get started with excel and data analytics.

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1876 - Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel 的 1900 个评论（共 2,285 个）

创建者 prithika B

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Apr 27, 2020

I believe that the explanation could be more thorough as in some topics as I had to look for external source.

创建者 Abhishek D

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Jul 12, 2017

Covers all the basics with good quality examples.

The way of teaching is also very simple and easy to follow.

创建者 Marcella E

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Feb 26, 2017

Very clear, good course but if you audit, you won't be able to get the answers to the end of week quizzes.

创建者 Allen L

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May 11, 2020

Quiz doesn't help much. Some of them are very confusing. I think the quiz can be designed/written better.

创建者 Diego F

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Jan 23, 2018

This course explains the basic for data manipulation and very useful tools to clean data and organize it.

创建者 Sriram A P

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Apr 22, 2020

Could be much more better if some advanced excel options and other data analysis methods are introduced.

创建者 saptarshi

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Feb 14, 2020

The professor was quite meticulous with teaching. The weekly quizzes were challenging and satisfactory.

创建者 J S

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May 20, 2017

I enjoyed the course, learned a few useful items. Looking forward to next courses in the specialization.

创建者 Joaquin M D

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Sep 27, 2020

It was a good review. The examples were brilliant and will immediately help you execute the learnings

创建者 Reina G

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Feb 17, 2021

Overall, I enjoyed this course and it has encouraged me to continue to learn more about the subject.

创建者 leong s y

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Oct 7, 2018

Great course!I learn a lot of basic excel, and the course content is easy to follow and understand~!

创建者 li z

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Oct 8, 2017

It's useful, but the content is for only entry to intermediate level. I feel it's too simple for me.

创建者 Hui H

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Oct 29, 2016

Easy for a novice and very useful, but It would be better if there are more materials for each week.

创建者 Jean H W

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Feb 4, 2021

The course needs to use newer version of Excel. The lesson on histogram needs to be more in depth.

创建者 Sanket J G

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Jul 7, 2020

This course explain well the basic concept of data analysis using excel.

I really enjoy the course.

创建者 Amit K

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Mar 29, 2018

The course was very useful & also the teaching style of the professor was very easy to understand.

创建者 Margaret S

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Jun 1, 2022

The videos were helpful, when they played, but I definietly had to go back a few times in week 3.

创建者 Jon K M

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Jul 24, 2018

Really good course overall. Some of the practice problems needed a bit more detail in the set-up.

创建者 Tim L

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Apr 23, 2018

A great place to start if you are new to Excel, a little basic for those with good Excel skills.

创建者 Akshay H

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Apr 30, 2017

One of the best online course available for data analysis using Excel as main tool for analysis.

创建者 Anita P

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Apr 12, 2020

All the excel formulae if added and introduced to would also have been very helpful. Thank you.

创建者 Shubhankit K

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Apr 14, 2018

It is a nice , to the point course. It would be better if there are some more diverse examples.

创建者 naveen j

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May 5, 2021

Please do provide the step of the solution for the quiz. it will help us to learn more better.

创建者 Paolo R

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Jan 26, 2023

Very very good course. The only downside is that there aren't pdf notes of the course lesson.

创建者 Ben A

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Jan 7, 2022

Great intro to Excel with clear videos (audio a tad soft) and great practice exercises/tests.