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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

IK

Sep 23, 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.

RR

May 31, 2024

The data visualization course in Excel on Coursera was really helpful. The content was detailed and practical, and The instructions were clear. overall , it provided excellent value.

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By Faizan A

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Feb 19, 2023

very significant course i have found it as a data analyst.

By AeneasGV

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Oct 1, 2023

Excellent course, moved my possibility frontier in excel.

By JOHN W B J

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Sep 11, 2022

MUY INTERESANTE TODO LO QUE SE PUEDE REALIZAR CON TABLAS

By Tatiana R

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Dec 18, 2024

Great course to enhance your data visualization skills.

By Oghenekaro O

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Dec 26, 2021

Thank you so much. I have learnt a lot in this course.

By MARIE N S

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Jul 11, 2023

Congratulation for our instructors Nicky and Prashan.

By ALVARO J A G

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Nov 2, 2022

Excelente contenido y explicación bastante didáctica.

By Yelena P

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Mar 24, 2022

Magnificent course! Very much useful in everyday work

By Saman Q

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Dec 8, 2021

Best course I've ever attended for data visualization

By MOHAMAD E M Z

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May 23, 2021

Great Experience, and great teacher, what a course!!

By Eduardo S R

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May 20, 2021

I really like it. Congratulations to the instructors

By Irina M

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Aug 17, 2022

Excellent experience & knowledge! Thanks for that!

By ahmed f

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Feb 4, 2022

It is a really great course, I enjoyed it very much

By Tochukwu G

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Mar 18, 2024

challenging but worth it. its too good to describe

By Marian A

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Oct 16, 2022

It is a good experience and skills Thanks for you

By Deleted A

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Jul 27, 2023

Wish I've done this course a couple of years ago.

By Nahim A R

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Mar 2, 2023

Very well crafted course. Loved it to be part on.

By Victoria A

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Jan 4, 2022

Great course, great specialization! Very useful!

By Ajeet S

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Sep 5, 2021

It was so wonderful to learn from this course.

By Aline F

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Feb 13, 2025

Really great classes; I have learned so much!

By Deborah S

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Jul 5, 2021

Wonderful. A lot of new knowledge. Thank you.

By passum g

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Nov 8, 2021

The course content was awesome and intuitive

By Robert C

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Aug 31, 2021

Great tuition, excercises and content thanks

By Mark A F

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Sep 3, 2022

This course I will recommend for everyone.

By ARIFUDDIN R

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Sep 29, 2023

amazing and very recommended online course