Courses

Data Analysis and Visualization with Microsoft® Excel®

Course number: CGIDAV40 - 1 Day (weekdays or on-demand)

This course shows you how to use Microsoft Excel to make sense of data and communicate it clearly. You’ll learn how to organize, clean, and analyze datasets, build dashboards that update with a click, and present insights using tools like PivotTables, Power Pivot, and geospatial charts. For professionals responsible for reporting, forecasting, or decision support, this training delivers practical, real-world skills you can apply right away.

Course Objectives

This course gives you the tools to move beyond rows and columns and start driving decisions with data. You’ll build confidence using Excel to solve real business problems—turning raw data into insight, and insight into action.

• Clean and prepare data using tables, formulas, and functions
• Analyze trends and patterns with PivotTables and PivotCharts
• Build interactive dashboards with slicers and timelines
• Use geospatial and statistical tools to deepen your analysis
• Model data using Power Pivot and connect multiple sources

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Excel Parts1 & 2 or equivalent experience

Target Audience

This course is designed for students who already have foundational knowledge and skills in Excel and who wish to perform robust and advanced data and statistical analysis with Microsoft Excel using PivotTables, use tools such as Power Pivot and the Data Analysis ToolPak to analyze data, and visualize data and insights using advanced visualizations in charts and dashboards in Excel. To ensure success, you should have baseline skill using Microsoft Excel worksheets, particularly in creating workbooks with formulas and functions.

Course Content