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University of Adelaide

Mastering Excel Pivot Tables

University of Adelaide via FutureLearn

Overview

Master data processing using pivot tables

Processing a large data set can be daunting. With the help of Excel pivot tables, you can convert masses of complex data into digestible chunks of information presented in visually powerful ways.

On this four-week course from the University of Adelaide, you’ll gain the technical skills you need to use Excel pivot tables. From tidying data to creating visualisations and telling a story, you’ll expand your expertise in data analysis.

Practise interpreting and visualising data using Excel pivot tables

From Week 1 of the course, you’ll get stuck into practising with pivot tables.

You’ll start by learning how to create a neat, tidy, and visually appealing pivot table. This will help to enhance your data visualisation skills.

Develop your skills in data analytics for business

The focus of this course is on using data analytics to measure and drive business performance.

In the third week of the course, you’ll discover how pivot tables can be used to calculate key business metrics. You can use these metrics to boost your own organisation’s results.

Learn how to tell a compelling story using data

Once you know how to build and navigate a pivot table, you can begin learning how to interpret the results. The fourth and final week of the course will look at how data in a table can be used to tell a story.

By the end of course, you’ll be a confident user of Excel pivot tables and a storyteller able to harness data for your business.

This course is designed for anyone working in or aspiring to a role that requires them to present or analyse data on behalf of their organisation.

Learners are not expected to have used pivot tables previously, but they should have some experience of Excel.

Whilst the online version of Excel provides basic functionality, some advanced pivot table features are only available to users in the Excel desktop application.

Syllabus

  • How do I create visually appealing pivot tables?
    • Getting started
    • Introduction to Week 1
    • Summarising data sets into pivot tables
    • Understanding areas of a pivot table
    • Exploring pivot table styles and style options
    • Layouts and interrogating a pivot table for results
    • Assessment
    • Bringing it all together
  • Applying updates and filtering options
    • Introduction to Week 2
    • Refreshing the data
    • Updating the data source
    • Filtering options
    • Assessment
    • Bringing it all together
  • How do I calculate custom business metrics?
    • Introduction to Week 3
    • Exploring built in calculations
    • Calculating custom fields
    • Connecting data sources
    • Assessment
    • Bringing it all together
  • How do I present data as a story?
    • Introduction to Week 4
    • Creating pivot charts
    • Creating pivot filters
    • Exploring chart options
    • Assessment
    • Bringing it all together
    • What's next?

Taught by

Danielle O'Connell

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