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Data Visualization in Spreadsheets

Learn the fundamentals of data visualization using spreadsheets.

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A picture can tell a thousand words - but only if you use the right picture! This course teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization with Google Sheets. You'll learn how to create common chart types like bar charts, histograms, and scatter charts, as well as more advanced types, such as sparkline and candlestick charts. You will look at how to prepare your data and use Data Validation and VLookup formulas to target specific data to chart. You'll learn how to use Conditional Formatting to apply a format to a cell or a range of cells based on certain criteria, and finally, how to create a dashboard showing plots and data together. Along the way, you'll use data from the Olympics, sharks attacks, and Marine Technology from the ASX.
  1. 1

    Business Intelligence and Using Dashboards

    Free

    Learn about business intelligence and dashboards for analyzing information in todays data-driven world. Create a basic dashboard and master setting up your data to get the most out of it.

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    Using Sheets as a Business Intelligence platform
    50 xp
    Using data validation controls view medal tallies
    100 xp
    Using data validation controls to pick from a list
    100 xp
    Using conditional formatting on a dashboard
    100 xp
    Setting up a basic dashboard
    50 xp
    Creating a column chart from your data
    100 xp
    Setting up your worksheet with formulas of reference
    100 xp
    Charting the medal statistics
    100 xp
    Setting up your data
    50 xp
    Getting started
    100 xp
    Format dates and numbers
    100 xp
  2. 2

    Efficient Column Charts

    Create and format a column chart to showcase data and learn a few smart tricks along the way. Look at using named ranges to refer to cells in your worksheet, making them user-friendly and easy to work with.

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    Efficient column charts
    50 xp
    Creating a column chart for your dashboard
    100 xp
    Format chart, axis titles and series
    100 xp
    Axis, gridlines, and changing the plot
    50 xp
    Removing a series
    100 xp
    Changing the plotted range
    100 xp
    Named ranges
    50 xp
    Using named ranges
    100 xp
    Summing using a named range
    100 xp
    Averaging using a named range
    100 xp
  3. 3

    Dashboard Controls

    A dashboard is like a control panel. Look at ways to allow a user to use this control panel to get different results from your dashboard.

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    Data validation
    50 xp
    Setting up your data
    100 xp
    Format numbers within your dataset
    100 xp
    Using VLOOKUP with data validation
    50 xp
    Creating and testing the data validation
    100 xp
    Adding the calculation
    100 xp
    Creating the line plot
    100 xp
    Formatting your line chart
    50 xp
    Chart titles, axis, font, gridlines
    100 xp
    Other formatting options
    100 xp
  4. 4

    Other Charts for Your Dashboard

    A picture paints a thousand words. Look at what types of charts to use in what situation to showcase your data.

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    Histograms
    50 xp
    Inserting the VLOOKUP
    100 xp
    Creating a histogram on the dashboard
    100 xp
    Formatting your histogram
    100 xp
    Candlestick charts
    50 xp
    Changing your dates to text
    100 xp
    Creating the candlestick for the dashboard
    100 xp
    Formatting the candlestick
    100 xp
    Scatter charts
    50 xp
    Creating a scatter chart
    100 xp
    Formatting your scatter chart
    100 xp
    Sparkline charts within a cell
    50 xp
    Sparklines
    100 xp
    Changing the color of your sparkline
    100 xp
    The column sparkline
    100 xp
  5. 5

    Conditional Formatting

    Learn how to use rules based on criteria you set to format certain cells on your dashboard. See the formatting change as the values in the cells change.

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    Using conditional formatting
    50 xp
    Creating a simple rule to highlight cells
    100 xp
    Highlighting cells between a range
    100 xp
    Using formulas and tidying up the dashboard
    50 xp
    Using a custom formula to highlight a row
    100 xp
    Highlighting duplicates
    100 xp
    Using wildcard characters to highlight dates
    100 xp
    Change a condition in a format
    100 xp
    Congratulations
    50 xp

In the following tracks

Spreadsheet Fundamentals

Collaborators

Amy Peterson
Richie Cotton

Prerequisites

Intermediate Spreadsheets
Raina Hawley HeadshotRaina Hawley

Owner/Instructor, OzGrid Business Applications

Raina Hawley from Australind, Western Australia is a professional Microsoft Excel consultant whose company, OzGrid Business Applications offers services in all aspects of Excel, and VBA for Excel. OzGrid Business Applications provides a huge Free Excel/VBA forum, a wide selection of templates, add-ins and software, Excel/VBA consultancy, some great training courses and hundreds of free resources. Raina is also a lecturer at South Regional TAFE and has co-authored several Excel/VBA books.
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