Basic Excel for Data Analysis Excel Data Analysis Excel Dashboard PivotTables Formulas Reporting

Basic Excel for Data Analysis From Data Preparation to Analysis, Reporting and Dashboards

Build strong Excel skills for practical business data analysis

📘 2 modules 🕐 6 hours 🎯 Beginner to Advanced

Course Overview

This practical Excel course focuses on using Excel for real-world data analysis. Participants will learn to structure and clean datasets, use essential and advanced formulas, analyze data with PivotTables and PivotCharts, calculate KPIs, identify trends and variances, and create management-ready reports and dashboards.

What You'll Learn

  • ✓ Work with structured Excel datasets
  • ✓ Use essential and advanced Excel formulas for analysis
  • ✓ Clean and standardize business data
  • ✓ Use XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP and INDEX + MATCH
  • ✓ Analyze data using PivotTables and PivotCharts
  • ✓ Calculate KPIs, trends and variances
  • ✓ Create management summaries and dashboards

Prerequisites

  • 👉 Basic computer knowledge
  • 👉 Basic familiarity with Excel is recommended
  • 👉 Basic understanding of percentages, averages and simple calculations

Curriculum

Excel Foundations for Business Data Analysis ▾
  • ▸ Understanding structured and analytics-ready data
  • ▸ Excel Tables and structured references
  • ▸ Data types, sorting and filtering
  • ▸ Data validation
  • ▸ Essential formulas for data analysis
  • ▸ SUM, AVERAGE and COUNT
  • ▸ IF and IFS
  • ▸ SUMIF, SUMIFS, COUNTIF and COUNTIFS
  • ▸ XLOOKUP
  • ▸ VLOOKUP
  • ▸ INDEX + MATCH
  • ▸ Text and date functions
  • ▸ Dynamic array functions: FILTER, SORT and UNIQUE
Excel Data Cleaning, Analysis & Dashboarding ▾
  • ▸ Identifying missing values and duplicate records
  • ▸ Standardizing inconsistent categories and formats
  • ▸ Data transformation techniques
  • ▸ PivotTables for business analysis
  • ▸ PivotCharts and analytical summaries
  • ▸ KPI calculations
  • ▸ Trend and variance analysis
  • ▸ Conditional formatting
  • ▸ Building management summaries
  • ▸ Dashboard design fundamentals
  • ▸ Creating an Excel analytical dashboard
  • ▸ Hands-on business dataset analysis

System Requirements

Software

  • • Microsoft Excel 365 / Excel 2021 or later
  • • Windows or supported operating system
  • • Internet connection recommended

Course Details

3 sessions · 6 hours
₹3,000

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