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Excel Basics for Data Visualizations (Coursera)

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By the end of this project, you will create different types of charts and graphs using Excel spreadsheets and built interactive dashboards. You will acquire basic skills needed to manipulate and create data visualizations and their importance for storytelling. This project is a first step in the development of data visualizations and telling a story.

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We will learn about the importance of charts and graphs and how they are able to shape our data providing meaningful information for decision making. Also, we will understand if we have a clean and clear data visualizations we will have a much clear picture of what is happening with our data.

In this Guided Project, you will:

Create an Excel for the Web account.
Create pie, bar, line, scatter, funnel, waterfall, histograms and treemaps charts using Excel spreadsheets.
Create an interactive dashboard and understand the importance of data visualizations.

Learn step-by-step

Data Visualization and more
Creating an Interactive Dashboard
Create Funnel and Waterfall Charts
Create Histograms and Treemaps Charts
Create Scatter and Line Charts
Create Pie and Bar Charts
Create an Excel for the Web account

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