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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

IJ

Jan 9, 2022

i​t's amazing how the course was designed for beginner,. Modules were easy to follow and Labs were also very clear. I am very happy with the accomplishment but his is only the beginning of a new time.

AB

May 31, 2023

Thinking to learn Excel for your Data Analytics Career, then go for it. It's a great course. Do the project and review your peer's assignments which help you in understanding the course even more.

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By Simarjeet S

Jun 23, 2024

I recently completed the free Coursera course on Data Analytics for Excel Basics, and it was incredibly informative and practical. The instructors were engaging, and the hands-on exercises really reinforced my learning. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to build a strong foundation in data analytics using Excel.

By Brenda V

Mar 22, 2024

la trducción falla en varios momentos por lo que no permite la mejor comprensión, sobretodo en las formulas y en cuanto a los examenes al tener conocimiento del idioma pude superar las dificultades pero una persona con un nivel bajo en ingles puede verse frustrada

By Viktoriia P

Apr 18, 2021

In the part of the course where excel functions are explained, there is no explanation as to what should this functions include. In Hands-on Labs there are only instructions what to write but no explanation as to what these things stand for.

By Duane B

Mar 24, 2022

Videos very informative, alot of informatiion in each section. Maybe it can be broken down a little more to be more easily understood, the hands on excersises were a bit confusing and jumbled for me. Tried my best with the Finals.

By Rosario O G B

Feb 11, 2025

El curso es muy básico, no lleva una secuencia en los ejercicios como para irlo mejorando o analizando conforme avanza la clase y se agregan funciones de analisis; además considero que hace falta muchos mas ejercicios practicos

By Maciek F

Jun 28, 2023

Course is overall okay and I learnedo some useful skills. I didn't like automatic voiceover and I was under impression that whole narration is quite chaotic. There are better courses on Coursera I am attending right now.

By Lucie

Oct 18, 2021

In the final assignment it is confusing that one is supposed to download a new file for part 2 - I did all the analysis on the resulting clean file from part 1 and because of this I did not get a full score....

By Felipe R

Feb 26, 2021

Good class if you have never used MS Excel before. It should be called "Excel Basics". Period. Nothing is "Data Analysis" specific. This should be a prerequisite for the certification, not a mandatory class.

By Fiona

Aug 5, 2024

AI review should be an option for all courses in Coursera. Peer reviewing is not trustworthy, and often done incorrectly, which is unfair to the person submitting their work, not to mention frustrating.

By Shubham V (

Jul 12, 2023

It's good, covers all excel basics; but it does get a little fast and explanations become a little shallow around Pivot Tables. For an absolutely new excel beginner, the course might seem a bit daunting

By Lisa H

Oct 27, 2022

#1.Needs more thorough explanations on some of the complicated formulas such as the use of quotations, etc.

#2. The instructions in the Graded Assignment 1 were not clear.

By Doaa M

Jan 15, 2022

Some thigs are not described in a good way , the pivot tables description was so disturbing , I took some others course who described the pivot table in better ways.

By Janeen W

Oct 8, 2021

The course was very informative, but does need more succinct language to better understand the steps. I do have a concern on which version of Excel is needed.

By NEGUSSIE G

Jan 26, 2021

A very light and limited content. Index and Match, error checking, etc.. are not covered. But the instructor has a very good teaching skills

By Estitxu L

Dec 30, 2020

Course was OK but labs weren't very useful. The instructions were too literal with little to none explanations of the purpose of each step.

By Syed I B S A

May 9, 2021

It would have been much better if all the worksheets in the videos were made available so students could follow along with the video

By Felipe F

Oct 25, 2024

Too few practice exercises and the ones that the course have, are very disapointing. Just checking the boxes wont make anyone learn

By Claudio S

Jan 22, 2024

its a good initial course, i thougth it would be dipper than it were, but is very useful to consolidate basic concept

By Delfin B S C

Jul 2, 2023

Los trabajos deberían tener una revision de los profesores, alguien evaluo mal mi trabajo y lo tuve que reenviar.

By Julia C

Jun 30, 2024

It owuld be helpful if all filaes shown in the videos are available in the lesson so we can follow along.

By Hanning K

Dec 25, 2024

Need to work on video presentation quality, most of the videos are really blurry and hard to follow.

By Praveen S

Sep 6, 2023

Must add some more of excel features and practical tests make students learn more and practice more.

By Mateusz B

Mar 8, 2023

For each excercise is different file to download, it would be better option to operate on one file

By Ruth F

Apr 27, 2022

The use of Excel for web had very poor user experience. Would have preffered to use Google sheets.