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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos by IBM

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    About the Course

    Learn how to create data visualizations and dashboards using spreadsheets and analytics tools. This course covers some of the first steps for
    telling a compelling story with your data using various types of charts and graphs. You'll learn the basics of visualizing data with Excel and IBM
    Cognos Analytics without having to write any code. You'll start by creating simple charts in Excel such as line, pie and bar charts. You will then
    create more advanced visualizations with Treemaps, Scatter Charts, Histograms, Filled Map Charts, and Sparklines. Next you’ll also work with
    the Excel PivotChart feature as well as assemble several visualizations in an Excel dashboard. This course also teaches you ...
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    BW

    Sep 5, 2022

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    G​reat Course! Still some gaps between what is expected to have learned and what was actually taught as far as a couple of the charts are concerned. But overall just an absolutely WONDERFUL course.

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    Jun 6, 2022

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    It is very constructive and very important course for the future of data analyst career. providing practical handin experience makes it the perfect self starter and motivational course. Thank you

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    By Irina S

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    Nov 12, 2024

    Too few explanations, it's all about clicking some buttons without much thought about why you would perform one or another analysis. Sometimes the graphs generated in the lab were without meaning. It's more about how to click some buttons to generate some ad hoc graphs rather than teaching you how to think about which graph to chose. Useful in this limited sense.

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    By Abdul M B

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    Jun 30, 2023

    The field on the assignment submission does not seem to behave normally. Whenever I type something in it, the cursor will always move to the end of the value, not to mention often characters I typed will eventually gone, so I have to type the character/letter again.

    Cognos seems to have an issue too. It runs frustratingly slow and often does not respond.

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    By Andrea P

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    Mar 25, 2023

    The instructions for how to navigate Cognos need to be carefully reviewed and updated as some of them seem like they are no longer accurate.

    Also, the narrator for the Cognos videos speaks way too fast and mumbles through a lot of the words. Please change the narrator. In comparison, the narrator in the Excel videos is far superior for learning.

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    By Dmitriy A

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    Dec 2, 2022

    The Excel part of the course is excellent. Easy to understand, easy to try, easy to remember.

    The Cognos part of the course is a disaster. The problem in the Labs 4, 5, and 6 was known more than a year ago and wasn't solved for all this time. It seems like the person who created the Labs didn't prepare well.

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    By Marta M

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    Feb 14, 2023

    The datasets for the Labs are full of errors and need some manipulation if you are outside of US. The assistants were not too helpful in solving these issues. A better dataset and/or a word of warning would make the exercises less frustrating and the whole course experience much better.

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    By Pankova _

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    Oct 25, 2023

    The interface is not modern. Knowledge seems basic, but the way of it sharing is a bit boring: just PPTX slides without animation. Task for very very begginers: first task was "we will teach you how to log in in Office". Frankly speaking, it is not the level, that I expected.

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    By Kevin J

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    Aug 8, 2023

    Doesn't get much in depth. You drag things on the canvas, or double click things - but you don't learn much of the theory of why you're choosing those types of charts, or why you're creating those analyses. It's more of a "do what I just did" demonstration course.

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    By Nataniel D

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    Apr 26, 2021

    I had difficulties to access Cognos Analytics. I think the links provided in the course are not refreshed with the address being used now by IBM. I may be wrong but this is for now my diagnosis. But, in the veral the course was very useful for me.

    Thank you so much

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    By Katy

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    May 13, 2021

    The course itself is good, however it's annoying that the final assignment is peer reviewed so if someone mistakenly gives you a wrong score you can't dispute it because there's no way to contact a Coursera representative and ask them to amend the grade.

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    By Omni C

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    Jul 28, 2022

    Very informative, I think IBM cognos is pretty intensely complicated if you're completely new, I think It could have used much more indepth explanation especially for the final assignment. Hope to grow more comfortable with IBM cognos in the future.

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    By Lori T

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    Sep 30, 2022

    "The Cognos hands on labs were frustrating because some of the steps didn't have screenshots as they asked you to do them and just assumed you knew where tools were for your first time using it. Sometimes it didn't work the way explained either."

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    By Cyara M

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    Jul 13, 2024

    It seems outdated, the course materials are not uploaded into a separate directory in the course materials or resources, making them often difficult to find. The Cognos demonstration was critically inadequate.

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    By Anu V

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    Aug 21, 2024

    Content is outdated, and instructions are very vague and incorrect at times. I had issues completing the peer graded work, and had to find workarounds to be able to pass the course.

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    By Xiaoyang X

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    May 8, 2023

    Wish that the course could spend more time teaching visualization tools that are more widely used in industry instead of Cognos. Not a lot of companies use Cognos.

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    By Caro A

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    Jun 17, 2021

    i think we could have used a bit more exercise, information and practice with Cognos Analytics. It felt really short, also the trial should last minimum 60days.

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    By Javier H

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    Dec 29, 2022

    The databases used in the hands-on labs are out of date and have poor formating, which makes it impossible for students to follow instructions.

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    Apr 5, 2025

    Course is good but the peer review is bad. Either incorrect evaluation or given a zero so obviously person has not reviewed. Frustrating!

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    By Latonya D

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    Jan 4, 2023

    Overall a good introduction to data visualization. I would have liked to have more training and practice on using pivot charts in excel.

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    By Lana

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    Aug 10, 2024

    The instructions given throughout the labs as well as the final assigments need to be made more clear. At times there were confusing.

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    By Anyanwu C C

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    Jun 28, 2023

    I really love the skill am aquiring as it will help me to adavnce my career .Thanking Coursera team for this great opportunity

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    By Anouk W

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    Feb 9, 2023

    Includes incredibly irrelevant questions of type what did person X say in video Y. Does not actually test knowledge on the topic

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    By santosh T S

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    Dec 26, 2022

    Excel was ok, But Instruction on Cognos was very much inadequate. I feel like I learn't excel but not Cognos.

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    By Kayla P

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    Dec 16, 2024

    This course needs to be updated as it did not always align with the exact way that it is set up on cognos.

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    By Kenan Y

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    Jul 19, 2022

    Last teacher's lecture (Kevin) was very bad and some answers dont't match with the Excel for web version

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    By Taha M

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    Jun 22, 2022

    IBM Cognos is not a common dashboard making tool in the market!! Teach us Power BI or Tableau instead.

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