The Microsoft Excel Analyst Bootcamp - Beginner to Expert
Description
Whether you're an Analyst who works with data for a living, or one of the millions of people in offices all over the world who find themselves spending more time wrestling with spreadsheets than doing their actual job, chances are excellent that you can supercharge your productivity - and decrease your stress - by mastering Microsoft Excel.
Excel allows us to transform, analyze, summarize, and visualize our data with incredible power and efficiency, making it the ultimate "glue" application without which many organizations would fall apart. You'd be amazed at how much many crucial decisions made at the highest levels of companies, or even governments, are made based on data in an Excel spreadsheet.
And even better - with the right teaching approach - Excel is actually pretty easy to master.
Now to be sure, Excel is one of the most complex applications ever built, and a course that covers all of its features and functionality might last well into the next decade. But fortunately, as with so many things, there is a small percentage of Excel's feature set that most people use, most of the time.
Because I want to level up your skills in the shortest time possible, this course is laser-focused on Excel's most useful and powerful features - the ones you'll find yourself going back to, day in and day out.
Here's a sneak peek at just some of the things you'll learn:
Whether you're an Analyst who works with data for a living, or one of the millions of people in offices all over the world who find themselves spending more time wrestling with spreadsheets than doing their actual job, chances are excellent that you can supercharge your productivity - and decrease your stress - by mastering Microsoft Excel.
Excel allows us to transform, analyze, summarize, and visualize our data with incredible power and efficiency, making it the ultimate "glue" application without which many organizations would fall apart. You'd be amazed at how much many crucial decisions made at the highest levels of companies, or even governments, are made based on data in an Excel spreadsheet.
And even better - with the right teaching approach - Excel is actually pretty easy to master.
Now to be sure, Excel is one of the most complex applications ever built, and a course that covers all of its features and functionality might last well into the next decade. But fortunately, as with so many things, there is a small percentage of Excel's feature set that most people use, most of the time.
Because I want to level up your skills in the shortest time possible, this course is laser-focused on Excel's most useful and powerful features - the ones you'll find yourself going back to, day in and day out.
Here's a sneak peek at just some of the things you'll learn:
- Keyboard shortcuts and data entry tricks that will help you swat away those tedious tasks around the office with ease
- Formatting tips to give your spreadsheets that professional look
- Filtering and sorting for rapid insights into your data
- Crunching out calculations and summary statistics with Excel formulas and functions
- Performing "date math" with Excel's vast array of date and time functions
- Using functions to perform complex operations on text data
- Logical functions like AND, OR, and IF for advanced conditional operations
- Master the essential VLOOKUP function for consolidating and reconciling separate datasets
- Best practices for constructing dynamic models with sophisticated controls for varying model input
- Advanced data visualization techniques, including custom formats, conditional formatting, and - of course! - charts
- Working with external data
- Managing "structured" data efficiently with Excel Tables
- Condensing large datasets into powerful Business Intelligence using Excel Pivot Tables
- Taking your Pivot Tables to the next level with Slicers
- Automating redundant tasks with Excel Macros
- Editing VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code for more fine-tuned control of your Macros
Who this course is for:
- Data analysts looking to take their mastery of Microsoft Excel to the next level
- Data scientists curious about leveraging the power of excel to make their data munging processes more efficient
- Business people who want to stop wasting hours of their day on redundant data manipulation tasks
- Students looking for clear explanations of some of Excel's most powerful features
- Anyone who would benefit from manipulating and transforming their data faster and more efficiently
