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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 22, 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.

AR

Nov 26, 2021

Excellent course, all the videos and material on point, a lot to practice, i did many courses and specializations and this one is excellent in so many aspects, i put it like a role model.

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By Elena M

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Oct 28, 2024

Hi, i loved this course, great being able to follow along all of the lectures and do a practice assignment. Also for the assessments they are very practical which really helps drive the information home too. Great content. My only negative is that occassionally there is an error in the question in the assignment (found others have noted this on the Discussions), and also I couldn't open a good few of the files in this course on Week 3 which meant I was a bit on the backfoot for the Practice Assignment and any related topics that came up on the assessments. Is there a way to separate the Creative Corner discussion answers too from the general queries etc. It would be great to search on the various weeks and get related answers which aren't related to the Creative Corner. Thanks!

By Shona W

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Nov 20, 2022

Excellent course. Lots of information covered in detail. Good practice challenges. It would be helpful to have access to some example datasets to practice with as finding datasets online with nice categories was quite challenging. It would be helpful to have the pivot tables weekly module before the 2nd Creative Corner in order to know how to manipulate the online datasets quickly.

By Chris D

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Mar 29, 2024

The course content was excellent however the rushed pace of the videos made it loose spontaneity and flow with constant stopping and rewinding non conducive to learning.

By Ibrahim B

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Sep 8, 2022

Excellant i learn very useful and new things in excel that I didn't know before, with very qualified instructors

By Thomas L

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Oct 24, 2022

Great course! Some of the weeks are long but very thorough in their explinations. Would recommend to others.

By Robert Z

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Oct 3, 2025

Very thorough Excel course. Encountered some problems with assessment grading but otherwise great.

By Paulina A V

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Oct 28, 2021

Está muy interesante el curso y aprendes muchos atajos para manejar excel con mayor facilidad

By PRABHA A A

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Oct 29, 2023

very very exciting and nice to spend to time on learning excel data visualization

By Saritha S

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Nov 29, 2022

Very good course with great content and good learning exercises

By Benjamin I

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Oct 16, 2022

Very hectic and so practical , it is worth.

By Alessandro D B

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Nov 10, 2022

Excellent work, very detailed, very useful!

By Riti J

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Feb 20, 2022

the faculty was the best

By vaishnavi K

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Aug 5, 2024

Need more help centre

By Hormazd P

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Jul 7, 2025

very much helpful

By Jean-Philippe M

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Jul 4, 2021

Excellent course!

By 21PDS813 X J

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May 18, 2022

very informative

By Charles T K

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Sep 27, 2022

Great course.

By menna h

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Oct 27, 2023

excellent

By AJAJ-UL H

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Jan 13, 2023

exicllent

By abdulelah

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Sep 19, 2021

VERY GOOD

By Mohamed G S

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Oct 25, 2022

V. Good

By Rounak A

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Sep 30, 2022

NICE

By SAMUEL A D E

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Dec 11, 2022

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By Jorge E A A

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Aug 7, 2024

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