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Introduction to Data Literacy and Data Analysis in Excel

This interactive course will help you to take your first steps in your data analysis learning journey. It will teach you the foundations of working will data, from understanding how data can benefit decision-making to understanding the data analysis process. By the end, you’ll be able to apply the core concepts of data analysis with real-world data.

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Part of the Data Literacy using Excel, and Business Analyst (Power BI) paths.

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Beginner friendly
4 hours
Self paced
3 lessons

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Introduction to Data Literacy and Data Analysis in Excel

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Course overview

This course will help you gain the practical skills in Excel to perform data analysis and visualization – and ultimately help organizations make more-informed decisions. We designed it for aspiring data professionals with little experience or learners who use basic Excel in their daily jobs and want to enhance their skills.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing – you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

Defining, Categorizing, and evaluating data
Identifying ways data use in everyday business
Organizing data for data analysis
Defining the key steps of the data analysis process

Course outline

Introduction to Data Literacy and Data Analysis in Excel [3 lessons]

Defining Data 1h

Lesson Objectives

Define data and variable
Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative data
Read tabular data

How to Use Data 2h

Lesson Objectives

Convert data intro actionable insights
Employ data-driven decision-making
Interpret data from a dashboard

The Data Analysis Process 2h

Lesson Objectives

Identify and frame a data question
Describe the steps of the data analysis process
Answer data questions using Excel

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Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.

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