Description
In this course, we focus on the specific functions, formulas, and tools that Excel has to help conduct business or data analysis.
We take you on a no-nonsense journey to teach you how to use them.We start by looking at how to take raw data and prepare it for analysis.
After that, we look at a number of tools and functions that can be used to conduct analysis such as Pivot Tables, before moving onto how to display data in the most meaningful way using charts, Pivot Charts, Slicers and so much more.
Finally, we move onto some more advanced techniques designed to aid forecasting and using existing data to predict future trends.This course also includes practice exercises so you can immediately put into practice the new data analysis techniques that you learn.
What you’ll learn
- How to merge data from different sources using VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH, and XLOOKUP
- How to use IF, IFS, IFERROR, SUMIF, and COUNTIF to apply logic to your analysis
- How to split data using text functions SEARCH, LEFT, RIGHT, MIDHow to standardize and clean data ready for analysis in Excel
- About using the PivotTable function to perform data analysis
- How to display your analysis using Pivot Charts in Excel
- Conducting a Linear Forecast and Forecast Smoothing in Excel
- All about Histograms and Regression in ExcelHow to use Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Solver to fill data gaps in Excel