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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 Gerald G

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Oct 24, 2022

Excellent method for teaching.

By Aymen B

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Apr 15, 2022

I enjoyed this awesome course .

By Bhavya B

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Jun 25, 2021

Well structured course content.

By Ahmed G

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Nov 10, 2022

Another achievement on the way

By Lidia T

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Jul 4, 2022

Thank you teacher and coursera

By JUAN A Z M

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Nov 14, 2023

una manera de aprender eficaz

By Keiichi Y

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Nov 26, 2022

Very well structured teaching

By Mahmoud H

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Nov 10, 2023

Very useful and very helpful

By Nurunnahar

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Oct 28, 2023

This is very helpful course.

By Ariel F

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Oct 6, 2022

a very great course indeed!

By kufa s

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Sep 2, 2021

This is an excellent course.

By Dominic S

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May 23, 2021

excellent pacing of material

By Epari N P

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Mar 9, 2024

Learnt some cool Dashboards

By Mohamed M

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Aug 14, 2023

It great course by the way

By Mishti J

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Feb 12, 2023

this is a very nice course

By DAVID B R

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Nov 24, 2022

Awsome course!! Thank you!

By SUSANA M C

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Nov 13, 2022

Excelente curso . Gracias

By Thitiwat

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Jun 23, 2021

Thank you all instructors!

By Andrew E

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Jun 25, 2022

Really enjoyed the course

By Keshav G

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Jan 20, 2022

Great Course! Thanks :)

By Juan D A G

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Jun 21, 2021

What a great course!!!!!

By Naglaa F I

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Aug 9, 2021

Great Course, thank you

By Brandan S

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Aug 29, 2023

It is a great course.

By AKSHAY R

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May 28, 2021

Thank you so much :)

By Lori M

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Oct 10, 2022

Exceptional course!