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Data Analysis in Excel

Learn how to analyze data in Excel.

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Course Description

There’s a lot more to Microsoft Excel than SUM and COUNT. Companies and institutions around the world use Excel’s powerful functions to efficiently transform mountains of raw data into clear insights, and now you can too.

In this course, you’ll develop employable analyst skills as you learn how to use time-saving keyboard shortcuts, convert and clean data types including text, times and dates, and build impressive logic functions and conditional aggregations. Through hands-on practice, you’ll learn over 35 new Excel functions, including CONCATENATE, VLOOKUP, and AVERAGEIF(S), and work with real-world Kickstarter data as you use your new-found Excel skills to analyze what makes a successful project.

  1. 1

    Exploring Data

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    In the first chapter, you’ll learn about the data analysis process, a framework that will help you transform raw data into information that is useful for decision-making. You will use Excel to start exploring the Kickstarter dataset.

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    Welcome to the wonderful world of Excel!
    50 xp
    What can Excel do?
    50 xp
    Data analysis steps
    100 xp
    Setting up your environment
    50 xp
    Navigating the worksheet
    50 xp
    Exploring data in Excel
    50 xp
    Looking for exact matches
    50 xp
    Trimming your data
    50 xp
    Sorting the table
    50 xp
    Nesting functions
    50 xp
    Understanding data types in Excel
    50 xp
    Classifying data types
    100 xp
    Changing to text
    50 xp
    Rounding values
    50 xp
  2. 2

    Preparing Data

    In this chapter, you’ll move on to data cleaning and learn about a variety of functions that help you prepare text and date fields. Additionally, you’ll use VLOOKUP, one of Excel’s most essential functions, to add data into your dataset from another table.

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    Cleaning text data
    50 xp
    Joining text strings
    50 xp
    Capitalizing words
    50 xp
    Using upper and lower case
    50 xp
    Extracting text from cells
    50 xp
    Counting characters
    50 xp
    Extracting text
    50 xp
    Replacing characters
    50 xp
    Preparing date data
    50 xp
    Using the system date
    50 xp
    Working with dates
    50 xp
    Finding the day of the week
    50 xp
    Figuring out the month
    50 xp
    The most important function in Excel
    50 xp
    Finding the matching column
    50 xp
    Working with range_lookup
    50 xp
    Using VLOOKUP
    50 xp
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    Analyzing Data

    For the final chapter, you’ll get down to business and use an assortment of functions to analyze the Kickstarter data and better understand what features successful projects have in common.

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    But who's COUNTing?
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    Choosing the right count function
    100 xp
    Learning to count
    50 xp
    Counting blank cells
    50 xp
    Excel the great calculator
    50 xp
    Math functions in Excel
    50 xp
    Finding the minimum
    50 xp
    Aggregating data
    50 xp
    Logic functions
    50 xp
    The arguments of the IF() function
    100 xp
    Performing a logical test
    50 xp
    Taking IF() to the next level
    50 xp
    Conditional aggregations
    50 xp
    Finding unique values
    50 xp
    Counting projects
    50 xp
    Determining the average
    50 xp
    Wrap-up
    50 xp

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Jen Bricker

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Jen leads the Career Services team mentoring learners during their job search. Previously, she led the Instructor Success team hiring hundreds of data scientists, working with them to build DataCamp content. Prior to DataCamp, she worked in non-profit management as well as data analytics adult education. Her career has always centered around her two main passions - people and data!
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