Data Skills for Excel Professionals Specialization

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Data Skills for Excel Professionals Specialization

Data Skills for Excel Professionals. Learn to apply Excel's power tools such as Power Query and Power Pivot to manipulate data, save time and energy, and create stunning visualizations.

Instructor: CFI (Corporate Finance Institute)

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3 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

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Beginner level

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2 months at 4 hours a week

Flexible schedule

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Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

The Specialization "Data Skills for Excel Professionals" offered by the Corporate Finance Institute equips participants with essential data analysis capabilities within Excel. The courses cover fundamental aspects, including Data Analysis in Excel, Power Query Fundamentals, and Power Pivot Fundamentals. The recommended pre-work for participants is to have a basic familiarity with Excel. The Specialization aims to enhance professionals' proficiency in leveraging Excel for data-driven decision-making and is a valuable resource for individuals seeking to sharpen their data skills in a corporate finance context.

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Specialization - 3 course series

Participants in the "Data Skills for Excel Professionals" Specialization at the Corporate Finance Institute engage in hands-on projects where they apply acquired skills to solve real-world problems. These projects involve tasks such as data analysis, cleaning, and visualization, allowing learners to gain practical experience in leveraging Excel's data capabilities for authentic business challenges in corporate finance.

Fundamentals of Data Analysis in Excel

Course 15 hours4.8 (62 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Excel is the most widely used analysis tool in the world and a great starting point for diving into data analysis.

In this course, you’ll apply Excel’s native tools to structure your data into spreadsheets and tables. You’ll then analyze and produce insights from that data using pivot tables. Finally, you’ll visualize those insights by building a dashboard in Excel. You’ll apply these skills using modern functionality like dynamic array formulas, linked data types, and Ideas in Excel. You’ll work hands-on with real-world scenarios, using datasets pulled from financial statements and retail sales. By the end of the course, you'll be able to: ● analyze a dataset using native Excel tools ● apply Excel tools and formulas to transform and structure your data ● create pivot tables to slice and dice your data ● visualize data with pivot charts and Excel Charts ● describe the landscape of data analysis and visualization

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microsoft Excel

Category: Excel Formulas

Category: Pivot Tables And Charts

Category: Data Visualization Software

Category: Dashboard

Category: Spreadsheet Software

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Transformation

Category: Exploratory Data Analysis

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data Modeling

Category: Data Presentation

Power Query Fundamentals

Course 25 hours4.8 (55 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

In this online Power Query Fundamentals course, we’ll explore the world of data transformation and automation. You’ll learn to extract data from multiple different sources, and transform it into layouts more suited to analysis. We will show you how to automate data connections and transformations, as well as how to extract and consolidate data from multiple files. Finally, we’ll end by looking at how to deal with common errors.

Power Query is absolutely essential for any Excel focused analyst, and is a powerful asset to any Business Intelligence analyst. These skills will help you spend less time on data manipulation, and more time on your analysis projects. By the end of this course, you will be able to: ● Identify the characteristics of good and bad data using the principles of data normalization ● Extract data from CSV and Excel files and automate basic transformations such as Pivot and Unpivot ● Extract information from fields that combine two or more values ● Transform datasets by grouping or combining data from different tables, or even multiple files from the same folder ● Avoid, interpret, and fix errors and exceptions that you experience in Power Query ● Load transformed data into Excel for use as automated data feeds

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Cleansing

Category: Data Transformation

Category: Data Import/Export

Category: Data Validation

Category: Extract, Transform, Load

Category: Data Integration

Category: Automation

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Microsoft Excel

Category: Pivot Tables And Charts

Power Pivot Fundamentals

Course 34 hours4.9 (27 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

This course provides step-by-step instructions for how to set-up a business intelligence dashboard in Excel using the Power Pivot add-on. You’ll learn the key functions and best practices for setting-up a dashboard. As you progress through the course, you’ll apply everything you’ve learned to a hands-on example using data we provide. By the end of this course, you’ll walk away with everything you need to create your own dashboards in Excel—so you can analyze and present data, track KPIs, and make your data easily accessible.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to: ● Create a Power Pivot table by drawing data from several different tables ● Develop simple calculated metrics with consistent formatting to be re-used across our dashboard ● Assemble multiple pivot tables, charts, and dimensions into a dashboard ● Apply DAX formatting language to create measures and columns that draw data from other tables ● Manipulate context to calculate more advanced metrics ● Utilize DAX Advanced Time Intelligence to create powerful period comparisons and KPIs