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Exploring Data in Excel
In this course, you'll learn how to explore, investigate, and summarize data using descriptive statistics and visualizations.
- Beginner friendly
- 4 hrs
- 4 lessons
- 1 project
- Premium
Course overview
Explore and summarize datasets in Excel by applying descriptive statistics and visualizations to uncover patterns and insights.
What's inside
4 lessons · 1 project
- 01 21 minIntroduction to Descriptive Statistics
Learn about descriptive statistics, why they are useful and explore some of the commonly known summary statistics.
- 02 44 minDiving Deeper with Descriptive Statistics
Learn about measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and measures of spread (range, standard deviation, IQR), and learn how to interpret them.
- 03 55 minApplied Descriptive Statistics
Learn to explore and analyze columns and groups of data using PivotTables.
- 04 63 minExploring Data with Data Visualization
Learn how to explore and analyze data distributions without calculating descriptive statistics.
- 05 55 minGuided Project: Identifying Customers Likely to Churn for a Telecommunications Provider Project
For this project, you'll act as a data analyst for a telecommunications company. You'll use Excel to explore customer data and build profiles of those likely to churn, applying statistics, PivotTables and charts.
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