Description

This course will help you to visualize, analyze and gain insights from your data using excel functions such as SumIf, CountIf, AverageIf, Xlookup, Subtotal, Sort, Filter, Take, etc. and very powerful tools such as Pivot Tables, Dashboards, Power Query. You will develop employable data analyst skills, starting with the Excel basics, what it can do, and the data analysis steps you should follow.

Topics included in this course:

1- What is data analysis and why is it important.

2- Data vs Information

3- Clean Data vs Dirty Data

4- Why would you want to convert a range into an Excel table

5- Relative vs Absolute Cell Reference

6- Data Validation

7- Conditional Formatting

8- Useful Excel Functions for Data Analysis

  • SumIf Function

  • CountIf Function

  • Averageif Function

  • Xlookup Function

  • Subtotal Function

  • Sort Function

  • Filter Function

  • Take Function

9- Pivot Tables

  • Building dashboards to analyze data

10- Power Query

  • Getting familiar with the “Data” tab

  • Getting familiar with Power Query Ribbon

  • Remove Columns

  • Choose Columns

  • Remove Rows

  • Keep Rows

  • Using Power Query to Transform/Clean - Text

  • Using Power Query to Transform/Clean - Numbers

  • Using Power Query to  Transform/Clean - Date and Time

11- Get Data from a Folder using Power Query

12- Get Data from a latest file in a folder Using Power Query

What You Will Learn!

  • Data Cleaning and Transformation
  • Power Query
  • Relative and Absolute cell references
  • Sumif, Countif, Averageif, Xlookup, Filter, Sort, Subtotal, and Take Functions in Excel
  • Conditional formatting in Excel
  • Data Validation
  • Pivot tables
  • Data Visualisation

Who Should Attend!

  • This course is suitable for those who are interested in pursuing a career in data analysis or data science, as well as anyone looking to use Excel for data analysis in their own domain.