Course overview
This course is part of the “Introduction to Data Analysis with Excel” skill path, which we designed for those seeking the practical skills in Excel to perform data analysis and visualization — and ultimately help organizations make better-informed decisions. We designed it for aspiring data professionals with little experience and learners who use basic Excel in their daily jobs and want to enhance their skills.
In this course, you’ll learn how to use graphs and charts to design insightful data visualizations for your audience. You’ll learn how to use Gestalt principles and pre-attentive attributes and more.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.
Key skills
- Visualizing data using pie, column, histogram, line, scatter, and combo charts
- Selecting appropriate data visualizations
- Creating charts using design principles
- Designing visualizations for your intended audience
Course outline
Visualizing Data in Excel [5 lessons]
Pie, Column, and Histogram Charts 2h
Lesson Objectives- Create pie, column, and histogram charts
- Create a frequency table
- Visualize a frequency table using a column chart
- Visualize grouped frequencies using a histogram chart
Line, Scatter, and Combo Charts 2h
Lesson Objectives- Interpret line plots by identifying types of change
- Visualize correlation using scatter plots
- Measure and interpret correlation using R-squared
- Summarize data using the `=AVERAGEIFS()` function
- Create a data visualization using a combo chart
Design for an Audience 1h
Lesson Objectives- Create charts using information design principles
- Choose the proper chart using the familiarity principle
- Improve a chart by maximizing the data-ink ratio
- Create publication-ready charts
Gestalt Principles and Pre-Attentive Attributes 1h
Lesson Objectives- Recognize patterns among distinct objects
- Create data visualizations using Gestalt principles
- Direct viewers' attention using pre-attentive attributes
- Use accessible colors
Guided Project: Visualizing the Answer to Stock Questions Using Spreadsheet Charts 2h
Lesson Objectives- Import a dataset to an Excel spreadsheet
- Create a report in Excel using data visualizations and tabular data
- Represent data using effective data visualizations
- Apply Gestalt principles and pre-attentive attributes to all visualizations
- Maximize data-ink ratio in all visualizations
Projects in this course
Guided Project: Visualizing the Answer to Stock Questions Using Spreadsheet Charts
In this project, we will apply the knowledge and skills we developed in the preceding lessons to present stock data clearly and help answer important questions about the underlying data.
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