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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Excel Basics for Data Analysis by IBM

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About the Course

Spreadsheet tools like Excel are an essential tool for working with data - whether for data analytics, business, marketing, or research. This course is designed to give you a basic working knowledge of Excel and how to use it for analyzing data. 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. No prior experience with spreadsheets or coding is required - all you need is a device with a modern web browser and the ability to create a Microsoft account to access Excel online at no cost. If you have a desktop version of Excel, you can also easily follow along with the course. Throughout this course, you'll gain valuable experience working with data sets and spreadsheets. We'll start by introducing you to spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and show you how to load data from multiple formats. From there, you'll learn how to perform basic data wrangling and cleansing tasks using functions, and expand your knowledge of data analysis through the use of filtering, sorting, and pivot tables. There is a strong focus on practice and applied learning in this course. With each lab, you'll have the opportunity to manipulate data and gain hands-on experience using Excel. You'll learn how to clean and format your data efficiently, and convert it into a pivot table to make it more organized and readable. The final project will allow you to showcase your newly acquired data analysis skills by working with real data sets and spreadsheets. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid foundation in using Excel for data analysis. You'll have worked with multiple data sets and spreadsheets, and will have the skills and knowledge needed to effectively clean and analyze data without having to learn any code. So let's get started!...

Top reviews

FK

May 24, 2022

Wow, the practical (Hands on ) part is a boom! How did the course disigner/ instructor and the rest of the team involved manage to do that?

Also the review part....so well done and easy to follow!

JR

Sep 26, 2022

Overall this was a refresher for me. I was able to reconnect with some of the Excel functions and can now apply those to my current job. The teachings and exercises I found useful and easy to follow.

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By Nkem A

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Feb 26, 2021

Very good course however the lessons seemed less detailed towards the end when the topics equally got more complex. However the labs helps clarify a lot of things. Had a challenge with the final project because I should have had 100% based on the rubrics but the person who reviewed my work missed out some points. Though I still passed, it wasn't pleasant that there was no way to have this error corrected or reviewed without resubmitting my work and further delaying the completion of the course.

By B.K. W

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Aug 27, 2022

GREAT refresher for those that have Excel under their belt and super course for those just starting out. Having never had to deal with Excel for the Web, myself, I found it a bit tricky flipping between the desktop version and the Web version.There are a few "huh?" moments in the course that really made me look for the answer myself as it wasn't really covered in the videos...but hey, I LOVE having my brain tested.

I'll likely come back to it, periodically, just to refresh my knowledge~

By Toyin B

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Dec 5, 2022

Some of the videos had tiny fonts and very blurry in some of the videos. This slowed down the pace of learning had it being the fonts were bigger. Asides this, I really I am so fortunate to gather all the knowledge I need as a data analyst. The teachers were so good at teaching each modules and by far, this was my highest score and so far my most favorite course. I really enjoyed this course. This course is the bedrock of data analysis using excel. I look forward to the other courses

By Alexandria A

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Jan 22, 2021

I liked learning about Excel through this course. The videos were very helpful in watching the processes happen in a sequential order. When it came time to do each module's hands-on lab, I found that to be somewhat difficult. The hands-on labs were kind of just random with not a lot of context and I did not feel like I was engaging with the material, at least in any realistic way. I think it would have been beneficial to work on the main objectives on the course more than once.

By Shermaine Y

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May 2, 2023

Some of the answer guides in the peer-graded assignment are misleading. For example, the Part 2 assignment, where the first pivot table has to be sorted in descending order. The screenshot for the first pivot table creation was not sorted in descending order, hence our work will not be exactly the same as the screenshot. My grader has not given me the full 2 points for this, even though the first pivot table was created, and already sorted in descending order.

By Ananthoja M

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Oct 11, 2022

Very good actually. The course is structured very well for beginners especially. I have given it 4 stars because the Lookup functions can be explained more clearly. I didn't understand the lookup function even after seeing it 2 times. So I had to rely on some other source like youtube to get a clear idea. So, Overall I can say it's a very good and well-structured course for beginners who want to get into data analysis or for anyone who wants to learn Excel.

By Mei-Yu H

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Apr 21, 2023

This was great to start building basic and foundational skills in Excel! The provided learning materials were easy to understand and when there were more confusing things I could just rewatch and reread to grasp it better. Sometimes my mind wandered during the videos or I wasn't able to follow along with the labs but I just replayed them and kept trying until I got it down. Very good course for a beginner like me!

By Joye B

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Jul 18, 2021

Overall, I do appreciate being able to learn how to apply Excel in Data Analysis. There are some things that could truly improve the course. On some of the videos, it was difficult to watch the screens to see the specific steps needed, and in at least one case, the spreadsheet we needed was available on the NEXT class. It would be helpful to have the files available within each week's classes.

By Joo N

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Oct 21, 2021

Very informative, easy to follow, and covers a lot of information. My only complaint is that I feel it doesn't offer a whole lot of hands-on practice and application of the information. The labs provide very detailed information and step by step instruction, but I would prefer to achieve similar results based on my own understanding of the content rather than following the steps given.

By Margaret B

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Mar 22, 2022

Occasionally, the instructions for the labs were difficult to follow and I think there were a couple times when they wanted me to do something that wasn't compatible with my version of the program. But overall it was a good amount of new topics covered while not being too advanced to follow. would recommend.

By Noy T

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Feb 23, 2022

Very nice! but i think the excel part was a bit too basic. Also the IBM Cognos was too short because this looks like a very elaborate and effective platform. Morever, the IBM Cognos videos aren't clear and comprehensive as the rest of the course. But all in all, i'm satisfied :)

By Shahida R

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Oct 2, 2023

The peer review portion for the final assignment is not the best. Given what the assignment was, it might've been better reviewed by instructors. Or, if not feasible, it should be easier to challenge grades, or reviewers should be made to explain their grading choices.

By Siddhanta R

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Dec 24, 2022

While this curse has been great at helping me learn the basics and few advanced steps in excel, i truly believe that the course needs to be abit updated specially the quiz as a couple of the answer in quiz were different than the ones given by the mentors.

By Val T

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Jan 13, 2023

Videos were easy to follow and assignments were also a good test of our knowledge. Just wished the Excel templates used in the videos were shared with course participants ahead of time, so that we can practise along with the videos.

By Lasantha C

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Feb 11, 2022

The peer review is the only one I am not happy with when the answer is correct the reviwer has marked it partially right. It looks like they havent gone through the review process properlly this is the second time this happened.

By Andrew K

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Apr 18, 2022

It was very informative and helpful, but it was not Mac friendly. I had to look through several external resources to figure out what keyboard shortcuts could be used in place of the Windows shortcuts listed.

By Jessica C

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Oct 27, 2022

I was pretty familiar with excel already, but this class definitely taught me some new tricks that I wasn't using. There was a breif lesson on Pivot, but I felt like that portion went really quick.

By Lim J

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Sep 29, 2021

Great and easy to follow along. The final assignment works with a too simple and unrealistic data set. I would prefer the final assignment to be a bit more challenging and uses a real world data set.

By Marianne N

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Nov 22, 2021

Really good and useful course to get more familiar with Excel. I wish there was better feedback to/from peers on the last assignment and how to grade... But that is just a minor opinion of mine :)

By Kimberly M

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Jun 13, 2022

Great introduction of basic excel concepts and how they can be used. The final project was simple and straight forward. I had some excel knowledge but this course taught be many more excel tools.

By DEEKSHA S

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Jun 19, 2021

I would like to say Thanks a lot to Coursera to provide me such assistance to grow my career. This is a wonderful skill creating and development course. This help me a lot to learn a new skill.

By lincoln m

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Jun 16, 2022

Very content with skills I learnt. However, some sections are not well explained and it seemed like the instructor was just going through them. For instance when teaching about "Flash Fill".

By Natalia J

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Oct 11, 2021

I use excel often at my work so I though this course was going to be extremely boring and useless, but I learned a few things at the end, and shortcuts that I now use to make my work easier.

By Bailey B

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Apr 15, 2021

Very basic. For experienced or even intermediate Excel users, this course can be completed quickly and is a good review of some of Excel's more basic but sometimes "forgotten" functions

By Joel K

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Jun 17, 2022

Ce cours est vraiment très interressant. Il m'a permis de vraiment redécouvrir Excell. Très fluide et pratique, c'est un cours facile à comprendre. J'ai beaucoup apprécier ce cours