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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mastering Data Analysis in Excel by Duke University

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About the Course

This course focuses on essential data analysis using Excel. Learn to design and implement realistic predictive models to reduce uncertainty for informed business decisions. In a hands-on project, you'll act as a business data analyst, building models to assess credit card applications, minimize default risk and maximize bank profits. You'll master key uncertainty measures like classification error rates, entropy of information, and confidence intervals for linear regression. Assignments use data provided within the course and basic Excel functions, ensuring fluency for future business applications. No prior knowledge of advanced Excel features (Visual Basic, Pivot Tables) is required. The Excel and data analysis skills you will learn will enable you to apply business data analysis methods based on binary classification, information theory and entropy measures, and linear regression, and prepare you for roles such as a business data analyst....

Top reviews

TB

Nov 17, 2021

I like and appreciate courses provided through Coursera.This course is very interesting and valuable for those whose jobs do have relevance with data management .God bless Coursera and Duke University

JE

Oct 31, 2015

The course deserves a 5-star rating because: (1) content is relevant, (2) the professor is concise and possesses great teaching skills, and (3) the learning modules are applicable to daily problems.

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By E B

Feb 11, 2016

Given this is the third (or fourth) iteration of this course, it's telling that the errors from the original release remain in the videos and quizzes. There are other, higher-quality Data Science MOOCs available.

By Abhiroop B

Apr 18, 2020

The Audio is not audible properly and the course material is not explanatory. The content and the quizzes or tasks dont add up. I had to often refer to google to find the modeling ideas.

By sagar c

Mar 24, 2016

The course structure is not thoughtfully prepared. There is a lot of confusion around what the instructor wants to say. The practice quizzes and course content have no match whatsoever

By 吳詠妤

Nov 15, 2015

Don't know how to apply the statistics and excel formula in real world situation. Besides, it becomes focus on approving statistics equation than teaching data analysis in excel

By Iselie I

Aug 10, 2016

En mi opinion es un tema muy interesante sin embargo cuesta entender lo que el profesor está diciendo por lo que es muy dificil llevar el ritmo del material...

By Esuene S

Apr 24, 2016

Poorly coordinated lectures. References to resources that are not provided. No response (at least, for days on end) when questions are posted on the forums

By Ruiqi X

Jul 7, 2025

VERY USELESS, YOU CAN'T IMAGINE HOW THIS SHITTY COURSE GOT INVOLVED!! It’s about something completely different!!!Zero value. Just wasted effort.

By Roberto K

Apr 13, 2016

Interesting statistical concepts, and great theory. However, the lectures and the quizzes do not prepare the student well for the final project.

By Siamak R

Aug 31, 2020

Not a well structured course at all. There is not much clear explanation on the subjects. You pretty much need to figure it out by yourself.

By Ashish G

Jul 18, 2021

Although course is good but not satisfied with frequent updates for which you have to again pay as we had already paid for the course.

By Josh H

Dec 16, 2017

Terrible course, almost no focus on Excel and the lectures were incomprehensible. Please redo this class with Dr. Borg teaching it.

By Inna G

Nov 17, 2020

not about data analysis in excel, but mostly how to create models, not related to real life and very hard to grasp

By Richard C

Nov 11, 2015

Where is the course study material and are you providing a book on this subject and Excel? You have me lost.

By Rahul K

Aug 17, 2020

Really bad course, teaches stuff which are very basic and then the tests are really nothing based on that

By Aizaz S

Dec 6, 2015

absolutely one of the worst courses... I am deleting it from my list.

no slides make it harder to follow.

By Alexey E

Dec 27, 2015

the course neither explains statistics properly, nor teaches how to use excel effectively, disappointed

By Elias R F

Sep 15, 2016

This is more of an introduction to statistics lesson than one in excel... not what I had signed up for

By Alex B

Feb 6, 2017

Not enough detail and information provided in the lectures to undertake the final assessment.

By He Y

Apr 10, 2016

Really confusing and struggled a lot. The course doesn't prepare you for the final project.

By Rochelle R

Jan 6, 2016

I would not recommend this course. It was very poorly planned and seemed thrown together.

By Pavani V

Aug 5, 2017

completely not relevant to my educational background. Highly very tough to understand.

By Michael K

Dec 3, 2016

if you do not have a background in statistics do not expect to pass this course

By Nyrola E

Nov 18, 2019

The second part of week 4 is really confusing . Poor design of the contents.

By Nitin P

Dec 12, 2015

Very poor material and instruction videos, with no logical flow or process.

By Deleted A

Dec 14, 2022

I want to unenroll from this course but Coursera doesn't allow me too.