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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...
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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.

FK

May 25, 2022

Wow, the practical (Hands on ) part is a boom! How did the course disigner/ instructor and the rest of the team involved manage to do that?Also the review part....so well done and easy to follow!

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By Jill F

Mar 3, 2023

I'm an experienced Excel user, but this course introduced me to some new tricks, such as the use of Flash Fill and the SUMIF function that will be helpful. If you're relatively new to Excel, you should find this course very satisfying.

A few things such as VLOOKUP are touched on too briefly. The pivot table segment is a good intro, but more detail is needed to explain WHY you might want to construct your table in a particular way. Complementary reference materials would be helpful.

The course is oriented toward data analysis in the business sector. Wish there was more consideration of Excel use in research contexts.

The lab activities allow you to try out the features covered in the course, and help familiarize you with concepts, but more depth would be needed to develop proficiency.

I'd love to see this course provide examples of how to document the "data cleaning and wrangling" steps in Excel. This seems like an important omission to address.

The assignments and grading process are straightforward and relatively easy to complete. It would be great to offer optional assignments for folks like me who are eager for more advanced exercises.

By Stace S

Aug 6, 2024

The course is broadly good. However, some of the differences between expected behaviors between some basic Excel functions like the age old File>Save or Save As and some of the newer MS 365 "rename" vs the need to download your work from the cloud in order to then upload it again for grading can be less than intuitive. This problem is compounded by the fact that such differences are characterized as minor in the course lectures. While that might be the case, the differences between the modern MS 365 functionality is deviating rapidly enough from those of older, local Office installation versions shown for lecture examples that the course appears to need an overhaul to keep things consistent. I did learn quite a bit, particularly in the area of pivot tables which I had thought to be more complex than they actually are.