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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.

GB

Feb 4, 2022

Absolutely fantastic course! I've been using Excel for nearly 20 years and I cannot tell you how many times I STILL found myself saying "Oh, that's neat!" Definitely worth your time!

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By Kristina M

May 2, 2021

Dr. P and Nicky are absolutely fabulous- professional, articulate, and fun. I have learned a lot about analysis and visualization in the first two courses of this specialization and am really looking forward to the final course. While I had a pretty good grasp of the general areas of what we covered, the gaps filled with efficiency tricks, understanding range of options, and creativity really took my dashboards to the next level. Thank you Nicky and Dr. P!

By Viktor Z

Apr 22, 2021

Dear Nicky, dear Prashan,

Thank your for this incredible course. The content was broad but never drifted off and the difficulty was exactly right, neither too hard nor boring. Everything was very well explained. I liked that you often went into detail and showed your own hacks and workarounds. I learned more than I thought I would and even had some fun along the way.

Thank you, Viktor

By Muhammad T S

May 5, 2023

Loved the content and the course structure. It was articulately planned and delivered covering all the important aspects. The teaching style was very captivating and the exams were designed to test the practical skills instead of a building a theoretical standing.

Thank you Coursera for providing an opportunity to learn from the best in the field.

Regards

By Maciek F

Jul 24, 2023

Very useful course. Excel visualisation features are clearly explained with many examples. Practice workbooks are greatly prepared and practice challenges and assessments are interesting and well thought out. I highly recommend this course, I find it one of the best Excel courses I attended to and easily one of the best on Coursera.

By Nathaniel R

Nov 12, 2023

To me, the course is easy to understand. Would recommend this to anyone trying to improve or learn their ability in presenting data into something meaningful using Excel. The course quizzes and practices are all also challenging and they helped me to understand how to visualize data better. Thanks Nicky and Prashan!

By Jiacheng Q

Feb 24, 2023

Super useful for a college or university students to spend their free time to learn this course. The overall video is very interactive and also they will give the excel documentation and some spreadsheets to help you having a better understand on how those techniques work! Very exciting to have this experience!

By Sara C

Apr 9, 2022

One of the most useful courses I have taken in my professional life. Each week I have been able to use what I have learnt and saved time in my work the same week, or within a couple of weeks. Both instructors are very pedagogical and the format with following along in my own work sheet fits me very well.

By Mateo E U

Mar 20, 2022

This is an amazing course. It begins with different kinds of graphics and ends up with the creation step-by-step of a very nice looking dashboard. This is great because it is an amazing way to show the information and summarize data in a visual way. Loved every lesson of it. Strongly recommend it.

By Terrence H

Nov 21, 2021

Excellent course. The material was well presented by both instructors and the ability to work through the examples while watching them in the videos is a great way to learn.The examples used in the practice challenges were well chosen and helped to consolidate what had been learnt in the videos.

By JORGE A C

May 4, 2022

Really great course, the way how concepts are explained is very clearly and excellent complement to have a quiz after each video/class, the final assessments and practices are also great, I learn a lot and finally I can say that I know how to customize visuals and make them interactive.

By Nguyễn M

Dec 1, 2021

I learned a lot throughout this course. The instruction is slow and in great details that allows me to follow easily. The assignments are challenging enough for me to practice my new learned skills. Many thanks to Coursera and Macquarie University for providing this course.

By Adriana P

Feb 13, 2023

I highly recommend this course, in fact all the courses related to Excel, provided by Ms. Nicky Bull and Mr. Prashan S. M. Karunaratne. There is only one thing I wish there was more of in this course, more homework or challenges. Thank you for your great courses!

By Andrés G M

Nov 24, 2021

Covers all the basics of Excel data visualization, all the topics are super usefull and it's very easy to follow along. The course gives you a full view of the available tools and also shows some interesting tricks. Excellent content! Thanks!

By Yissel A

Sep 8, 2023

This course was excellent! The lessons were informative and fun. The video quality is great and the lesson format (work-alongs), followed by quizes and the optional creative corner, is engaging and enjoyable. I highly recommend it.

By Carlos G D O

Apr 9, 2022

Es un curso muy completo, trabajas tablas dinámicas, macros y dashboards, todo orientado a tener una salida atractiva e interactiva de los datos, sientan las bases sobre buenas prácticas para contar una historia con los datos.

By Sahil k

Apr 3, 2022

I can't thank enough to the teachers for sharing their valueable insights in this course. They did a great job.

This world needs more courses like this; perfect blend of theoratical and practical knowledge.

Thank you once again

By Arushi G

May 6, 2021

It was a wonderful course, teaching me how to visualize data in Excel. The concepts were explained easily and in a beautiful manner and the assignments were designed in such a way that can test your knowledge in the best way.

By Miroslav H

Jul 31, 2022

I've completed several courses from Macquarie University and I must say these are the best Excel courses on Coursera. Instructors, learneing content, learning pace, practice challenges and quizzes. I absolutely recommend it.

By Chase W

Jul 12, 2021

This course (and series) has been very eye opening! I thought I was good with excel but not only have I learned how to do certain tasks much more efficiently, I have learned several new tricks. Highly Recommend.

By Abhilasha S

Apr 12, 2023

Absolutely loved this course. The instructors taught everything very nicely. The course content was easy to follow & understand. I will definitely recommend this to everyone who wants to learn excel thoroughly.

By Miguel R C

Jan 21, 2023

Amazing course, like everything Macquarie does!

Very simple, but it let's you wet your feet at all the things excel can be good with.

All tools work perfectly.

I totally reccomend it.

Thanks again Nikki and Prash!

By Luis S

Apr 15, 2022

Muy buen curso, amplía mucho el horizonte de qué tipo de gráficas existen y podemos usar, y cómo utilizar de manera diferente y creativa las gráficas que ya conocemos. Recomiendo este curso para todo el mundo

By André L C d R S

Apr 4, 2021

I'm not able to express all my gratitude to Professors Nicky and Prashan. They were so nice as tutors and explained everything in such a great way. Thank you very much for that! Greetings from Brazil!

By Imran K

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.

By Juanmi R

Apr 14, 2021

Magnífico curso para dominar gráficos e interactividad en Excel. Es imprescindible si quieres aprender a tener muy bien organizados tus datos y a exponerlos de la forma más apropiada!