Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel offered by Rice University
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Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel at Rice University Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel at Rice University Highlights
- Earn a certificate after completion
Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel at Rice University Course details
- You’ll learn how to set filters in data to selectively access data
- You will get to understand these various charts and get to build them on your own
- Learners are introduced to the IF, nested IF, VLOOKUP and the HLOOKUP functions of Excel
- This course is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advance topics in Business Statistics
- The course is designed keeping in mind two kinds of learners – those who have very little functional knowledge of Excel and those who use Excel regularly and wish to enhance their skills
- The course takes you from basic operations such as reading data into excel using various data formats, organizing and manipulating data, to various advanced functionality of Excel
Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel at Rice University Curriculum
Module 1: Introduction to Spreadsheets
Reading data into Excel using various formats
Basic functions in Excel, arithmetic as well as various logical functions
Formatting rows and columns
Using formulas in Excel and their copy and paste using absolute and relative referencing
Module 2: Spreadsheet Functions to Organize Data
IF and the nested IF functions
VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP
The RANDBETWEEN function
Module 3: Introduction to Filtering, Pivot Tables, and Charts
VLOOKUP across worksheets
Data filtering in Excel
Use of Pivot tables with categorical as well as numerical data
Introduction to the charting capability of Excel
Module 4: Advanced Graphing and Charting
Line, Bar and Pie charts
Pivot charts
Scatter plots
Histograms