Learn Excel data analysis in this hands-on course and expand your ability to analyze large amounts of data and professionally present your results. Gain the knowledge and skills to build more sophisticated spreadsheets, perform What-If analyses, apply functions, manipulate PivotTables, and use the advanced features of Excel to make and present better business decisions.
Key Features of this Excel Data Analysis Training:
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Choose from blended on-demand and instructor-led learning options
- Exclusive LinkedIn group membership for peer and SME community support
Software
This course is applicable to all versions of Excel, from Excel 97 to Excel 2016
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Learning Objectives
You Will Learn How To:
- Leverage features of Microsoft Excel to facilitate business decisions
- Develop intelligent worksheets to quickly identify KPIs
- Perform "what-if" analyses for developing budget and project plans
- Summarise and analyse large amounts of data using PivotTables and Excel features
- Automate Excel processes
Hands-On Experience:
- Automating lookup calculations
- Reducing speculation with "what-if" analyses
- Consolidating and summarising data contained in multiple worksheets and workbooks
- Defining the best combination of values to solve problems
- Creating interactive reports with PivotTables
Pre-Requisites
In this excel data analysis course, you use advanced Excel techniques to build sophisticated spreadsheets. You learn to perform "what if" analyses, leverage features and apply functions, manipulate PivotTables to analyse large amounts of data, and present your results to make better business decisions for planning and budgeting. You also learn how to automate processes and enhance worksheet models.
Recommended Experience
Experience with Excel fundamentals
Course Content
Troubleshooting and Enhancing Professional Workbooks
- Deciphering and correcting functions for data integrity
- Accurately interpreting calculations
- Implementing Names to enhance your workbook model
- Monitoring KPIs using conditional formatting
Analysing Data with Functions
Summarising business data with functions
- Identifying the correct statistical function to aid analysis
- Applying basic financial functions
- Differentiating serial dates and date presentations
- Calculating the number of working days
Controlling calculations and nested formulas
- Interpreting data variations with the IF function
- Streamlining calculations with referencing
- Developing nested functions for multiple conditions
- Capturing information with lookup functions
- Applying techniques to implement and troubleshoot nested calculations
Optimising Workbook Models with "What-If" Analysis
Planning for contingencies
- Managing variables in worksheets with Scenarios
- Comparing and contrasting different data sets with scenario reports
Quantifying variables in a workbook model
- Determining the magnitude of a variable with Goal Seek to achieve an end value
- Calculating the optimum variable values in a worksheet model with Solver
Summarising Business Information
Organising workbooks and links
- Arranging multiple workbooks with Workspaces
- Managing external links
Consolidating ranges
- Building 3D formulas to analyse worksheet data
- Summarising multiple sources of Excel information into one worksheet
Formulating Decisions from Database Information
Distilling data sets for data analysis
- Managing multiple data sets on a single worksheet with the Table feature
- Defining an Excel data set to ensure appropriate use of built-in features
- Extracting unique lists of records from an Excel data set with the Advanced Filter
- Analysing data sets with filters and aggregation
Interpreting and refining data with PivotTables
- Defining data summaries interactively
- Summarising data sets with grouping and aggregation
- Comparing related totals dynamically
- Filtering details with Report Filters and Slicers
Visualising and exploring PivotTable reports
- Presenting PivotTable reports effectively with PivotCharts
- Examining data patterns with Sparklines
- Analysing multiple tables of data with Power Pivots
- Discovering and presenting information with Power View
Enhancing Excel Usage with Macros
Automating repetitive tasks
- Simplifying complex tasks and reducing errors
- Bulletproofing routine editing and formatting
- Invoking macros with Form controls
