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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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创建者 Karanam V R

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Jul 13, 2021

This is my very first online course and i felt the structure of the course is well designed and every once can understand easily.

创建者 nelly p

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Nov 21, 2020

Lectures are understandable with reasonable practice quizzes and finals and also some tricky questions. Overall, worth the study!

创建者 Ryan H

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Sep 23, 2020

The professor is very thorough and the videos easy to follow. The quizzes test your ability on the info very well. Thanks Sharad!

创建者 Audrey B H

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Mar 29, 2020

I think the lessons are well explained and easy to follow. It really adds my knowledge regarding how to work my way around excel.

创建者 Konstantinos R

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Dec 23, 2020

Great course! Someone can learn very useful things and it starts from very basic ones. The structure of the course is excellent.

创建者 Gabriel P

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Oct 24, 2020

Very informative and useful. I learned a lot from this. The lecturer's way of teaching is very comprehensive and talks smoothly.

创建者 fahim p

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Sep 28, 2019

It is a good course for a starting boat in ocean of excel, instructor was good and explaining ability of instructor was awesome.

创建者 Frederick C T

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Sep 5, 2017

Excel has an infinite number of learning paths this one is fragmented to empower you and keep you on of the data analysis route.

创建者 Ayush K

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Jan 18, 2017

The course is really helpful as it equips one to use basic and advanced functions of excel and explain concepts in clear details

创建者 Vaibhav V

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Apr 10, 2020

Amazing course. Learnt a lot of new features about excel. would like to do the advance course too.

Thank you sir,

Regards,

Vaibhav

创建者 Emily N

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Jul 2, 2018

Very helpful course to review the basics of Excel. The presentations were clearly laid-out and made the concepts easy to learn.

创建者 Aayush C

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Nov 7, 2017

The Instructor has constructed this course in a very systematic manner, which makes it easy to understand all the new concepts.

创建者 Mynell M

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Oct 22, 2020

The videos were easy to follow. Checkpoints such as quizzes were used to determine whether you're able to get from the lesson.

创建者 Ajinkya D

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Jan 7, 2017

Well structured course taught by an extremely good professor. Great projects and quizes that make you learn with each question

创建者 Deleted A

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Nov 11, 2016

Was a great course for learning and for review. It was relevant and concise. I would recommend it if you choose to do either.

创建者 Germán D L P

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Aug 9, 2020

Excellent introductory course for the specialization, lessons with the necessary information and exams with fair challenges.

创建者 Freiser P M

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Jul 23, 2020

It was a great experience, to refresh knowledge, and learn new techniques to interpret and understand summary databases!!!!!

创建者 Petrona D

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Sep 30, 2018

This course allowed me to review basic excel knowledge as well taught me a lot of things that I used during my tasks at job.

创建者 Raj S

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Dec 30, 2022

VERY NICE AND KNOWLEDGABLE COURSE.THE WAY IT IS PREPARED AND PRESENTED WAS VERY USEFUL TO GET A GOOD KNOWLEDGE OF MS EXCEL.

创建者 Joe B

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Dec 1, 2022

The instructor was very good in demonstration and explanation. Data sample for practice was greatly helpful and practical.

创建者 Fabian F

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Oct 1, 2020

I have used excel for over 10 years now and I wish I would have had this as an introduction to excel when I first started.

创建者 Ashwini M

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Jun 11, 2020

This course is designed for the beginners and the narration of the content is so clear that makes the course a lot easier.

创建者 Roshan B P

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Jun 7, 2020

It's Really a Good course for Beginners and the way of teaching of the professor is really nice with proper demonstration.

创建者 曹天翼

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Aug 5, 2018

Good,I have learned a lot in this course. The teacher and the assistants are good and helpful, they answer every question

创建者 Tessie S

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Aug 30, 2020

Excellent course, the Excel version was a bit old but it's easy to determine how it works with the latest Excel version.