This course will be useful for anyone who has a foundational knowledge of Excel and would like to perform more robust and advanced data analysis. You will begin by performing fundamental data-analysis tasks like creating tables and sorting and filtering data. You'll also start visualizing data with Excel through charts.
Excel: Data Analysis and Visualization Fundamentals
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Excel: Data Analysis and Visualization Fundamentals
This course is part of Data Analysis and Visualization with Microsoft Excel Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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3 hours to complete
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In this course, you will perform data-analysis fundamentals and visualize data with Excel.
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January 2026
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This course is part of the Data Analysis and Visualization with Microsoft Excel Specialization
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There are 3 modules in this course
Embracing data analysis as part of a job role requires that you grasp fundamental concepts about data science, data analysis, and visualization. It also requires an understanding of the core data organization and segmentation capabilities in Excel. In this lesson, you'll perform fundamental data analysis tasks in Microsoft® Excel®.
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Microsoft® Excel® provides you with powerful features to help organize and analyze data, but once your analysis is complete, you have to communicate your findings. The people you report or present data to might not have the same comfort level or expertise when it comes to viewing worksheets. Further, viewing rows of numbers in tables is not a natural way for people to process information. To communicate effectively, you need to provide a simple, easy-to-digest view of relevant data so your audience can quickly understand what's really important.
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You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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