Excel Dashboards

Audience:

This course is designed for students who already have foundational knowledge and skills in Excel and who wish to begin taking advantage of the data analysis functionality with Excel using functions, charts, and PivotTables, and using visualizations in charts and dashboards in Excel.

Prerequisites:

To ensure success, you should have baseline skill using Excel worksheets, particularly in creating workbooks with formulas and functions.

Description:

Today's world runs on data more than ever before and that's a trend not likely to change, or even slow down, any time soon. With the tremendous amount of available data, the ability to make sense of it continues to be an ongoing challenge. You already know how to use Excel to perform simple calculations and modify worksheets to make them easier to read, interpret, and present to others. But Excel is capable of doing so much more.

To gain a truly competitive edge, you need to be able to extract actionable organizational intelligence from your raw data, and present it in a visually compelling format that enables decision makers to view key trends and gain insights. And that's exactly what this course aims to help you do.

Outline:

Lesson 1: Data Analysis Fundamentals

Topic A: Introduction to Data Science

Topic B: Create and Modify Tables

Topic C: Sort and Filter Data

Lesson 2: Visualizing Data with Excel

Topic A: Visualize Data with Charts

Topic B: Modify and Format Charts

Topic C: Apply Best Practices in Chart Design

Lesson 3: Analyzing Data with Formulas and Functions

Topic A: Analyze Data with Formulas and Named Ranges

Topic B: Analyze Data with Functions

Topic C: Implement Data Validation, Forms, and Controls

Topic D: Create Conditional Visualizations with Lookup Functions

Lesson 4: Analyzing Data with PivotTables

Topic A: Create a PivotTable

Topic B: Analyze PivotTable Data

Lesson 5: Presenting Visual Insights with Dashboards in Excel

Topic A: Visualize Data with PivotCharts

Topic B: Filter Data Using Slicers and Timelines

Topic C: Create a Dashboard in Excel

Appendix A: Using Lookup Functions