Excel Basics for Data Analysis

The spreadsheet skills every data role assumes you already have

Before dashboards, models, or Python, there's Excel — and this course treats it as the genuine analytical tool it is rather than a filing cabinet. It's built for people with no prior spreadsheet or coding background who want a real working foundation, not just a tour of the ribbon menu.

Core skills

• Excel formulas and pivot tables for summarizing data
• Data cleansing and data wrangling — fixing messy, real-world data
• Data quality and integrity concepts, plus a look at data ethics
• Cross-tool literacy, including Google Sheets

It's a beginner-level course, and its scale — nearly 665,000 learners — reflects how foundational this skill set is for anyone eyeing a data analytics or data science career. Worth taking even if you've used Excel casually for years; the pivot-table and data-wrangling habits here are what separate spreadsheet users from spreadsheet analysts.