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Business Statistics and Analysis
The Business Statistics and Analysis Specialization is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of business data analysis tools and techniques. Informed by our world-class Data Science master's and PhD course material, you’ll master essential spreadsheet functions, build descriptive business data measures, and develop your aptitude for data modeling. You’ll also explore basic probability concepts, including measuring and modeling uncertainty, and you’ll use various data distributions, along with the Linear Regression Model, to analyze and inform business decisions.
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Using Basic Formulas and Functions in Microsoft Excel
Have you started using spreadsheets like Excel and want to learn how to write formulas and functions to perform simple data analysis? In this project, you will learn about the general format for writing formulas and functions in Excel to perform analysis on the sales data from a sample company. In this analysis, you will calculate total sums of profits, you will learn how to use functions to analyze the popularity of the items sold and you will also learn how to calculate averages and percentages of monthly profits.
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Overview of Data Visualization in Microsoft Excel
After finishing this project, you will have learned some basic rules about data visualization and can apply them whenever you create charts.
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Building Candlestick Charts with Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will create a candlestick chart with open, high, low, and close data from the stock market, and you will also set up an auto-refresh function to get the live data.
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Create a Simple Gantt Chart using Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will be able to create a simple Gantt chart to manage your next project. You will utilize the free online version of Microsoft Excel to create a Gantt chart from scratch. This Gantt chart will give you a better idea of how bar charts and conditional formatting work. This guide will incorporate some Excel functions to teach you how to use conditional formatting to make your chart and data interactive.
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Create a Financial Statement using Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will be able to complete a financial statement with Microsoft Excel, composed of a transactions page, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet. You will learn how to enter your business transactions and interpret the data presented in the profit and loss statement. You will also learn about the components of a balance sheet and will have a better understanding of how a financial statement can be used to help track and present financial information for your company.
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Create Charts and Dashboards Using Microsoft Excel
In this project, you will learn how to create charts in Microsoft Excel to analyze sales data of a sample company. You will learn how to create PivotTables to assess different aspects of the sales information, and represent the information from the tables as line, bar, and pie charts. When creating the charts, you will learn how to format them so they are easily interpreted and you will then assemble the charts in a dashboard to provide a global picture of the sales data.
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Conditional Formatting, Tables and Charts in Microsoft Excel
In this project, you will learn how to analyze data and identify trends using a variety of tools in Microsoft Excel. Conditional formatting and charts are two tools that focus on highlighting and representing data in a visual form. With conditional formatting, you can define rules to highlight cells using a range of color scales and icons and to help you analyze data and identify trends or outliers. You will then use PivotTables to create summaries of the data that focuses on specific relationships which you will represent as a line chart and column chart.
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Spreadsheets for Beginners using Google Sheets
This 2-hour long project-based course is an introduction to spreadsheets. We’ll be using Google Sheets in this project, which is the free spreadsheet program offered by Google. With that said, most of the concepts that you will learn in this project will be applicable to other spreadsheet programs, such as Microsoft Excel.
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Introduction to Financial Accounting: The Accounting Cycle
In this hands-on Specialization you will practice completing each step of the accounting cycle within Microsoft Excel, from analyzing and recording the first financial transactions of the year all the way through starting the new fiscal year. The skills covered in this course include recording in the journal, posting in the ledgers, preparing financial statements, recording and posting closing entries, as well as preparing trial balances.
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Interweaving Tables, References, and Links in Excel
Microsoft Excel has a wide array of versatility and application across countless industries. However, it can be very particular in how the formulas need to be written to reference images, cells, sheets, and even other files. In this project, we discuss navigating the web of connections Excel is capable of, in hopes of making your life just a little bit easier.
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Creating a Budget with Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will learn how to create a budget template in an Excel Spreadsheet by using a free version of Microsoft Office Excel. Excel is a spreadsheet that is similar in layout as accounting spreadsheets. It consists of individual cells that can be used to build functions, formulas, tables, and graphs that easily organize and analyze large amounts of information and data. While a budget helps you stay within estimated costs and expenses for either a business or a family. We will learn to create a budget both automatically and manually, step by step.
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Everyday Excel
This Specialization is for learners wishing to learn Microsoft Excel from beginner level to expert level. The first two courses will teach learners the basics of Excel through the use of dozens of educational screencasts and a series of quizzes and in-application assignments. Finally, in Part 3 (Projects), learners will complete several "real world", somewhat open ended yet guided projects. In the Projects course, special emphasis is placed on dynamic array functions, which are new in Office 365 and have revolutionized the way that worksheet calculations are performed.
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Computational Reasoning with Microsoft Excel
Learn how to critically evaluate solutions and make well-informed decisions based on data by merging Microsoft Excel skills with philosophical critical reasoning. No prior experience with Microsoft Excel required.
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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
This Specialization is intended to help all novice computer users get up to speed with Microsoft 365 quickly. It covers different features of the interface, shows you how to perform basic tasks, and introduces you to the most important tools in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. This program will help you to become familiar with the apps and services included in a Microsoft 365 subscription. You will improve your word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation skills to take your productivity to the next level.
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IBM Data Analytics with Excel and R
Prepare for the in-demand field of data analytics. In this program, you’ll learn high valued skills like Excel, Cognos Analytics, and R programming language to get job-ready in less than 3 months. Data analytics is a strategy-based science where data is analyzed to find trends, answer questions, shape business processes, and aid decision-making. This Professional Certificate focuses on data analysis using Microsoft Excel and R programming language.
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Charts, Pictures, Themes, and Styles in Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will create a free account on Microsoft 365, get access to Microsoft Excel, and will create a workbook with charts, pictures, themes, and styles. Your new skills will help you manage information in Microsoft Excel in the most efficient way.
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Create a Mortgage Calculator in Excel
By the end of this project, you will learn how to create a mortgage payment calculator in an Excel Spreadsheet by using a free version of Microsoft Office Excel. Excel is a spreadsheet that is similar in layout as accounting spreadsheets. It consists of individual cells that can be used to build functions, formulas, tables, and graphs that easily organize and analyze large amounts of information and data. While a mortgage calculator helps you to see how extra payments effect your principal amount. We will learn to create a budget both automatically and manually, step by step.
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Get Started with Spreadsheet Applications: Excel
Spreadsheet applications are an essential part of productivity at work and school. Understanding how to use spreadsheet apps such as Microsoft Excel can make you a more efficient and valuable worker. In this mini-course, you will learn the essentials of working with spreadsheet apps. You will learn how to open, save, share, and print spreadsheet files, move around a worksheet, and enter and edit data. This course will teach you how to use formulas, functions, charts, and data, and it will also explain how to work collaboratively with online spreadsheets.
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Introduction to Data Analysis using Microsoft Excel
In this project, you will learn the foundation of data analysis with Microsoft Excel using sales data from a sample company. You will learn how to use sorting and filtering tools to reorganize your data and access specific information about your data. You will also learn about the use of functions like IF and VLOOKUP functions to create new data and relate data from different tables. Finally, you will learn how to create PivotTables to summarize and look at comparisons within your data.
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Getting started with Azure IOT Hub
In this 1-hour guided project, you will create an IoT hub & an IoT device in Azure and use a Raspberry Pi web simulator to send telemetry data to the IoT hub. You will then create an Azure Cloud storage account to store the telemetry data and also create a Stream Analytics job to fetch the data in a CSV file. In the final task, you will analyze and visualize the temperature and humidity telemetry data through line charts and area charts using Microsoft Excel online.
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Microsoft Excel مقدمة إلى تحليل البيانات باستخدام
فى نهاية المشروع ده , هتقدر تحدد و تستخدم أساسيات تحليل البيانات باستخدام Microsoft excel.
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Introduction to Predictive Modeling
Welcome to Introduction to Predictive Modeling, the first course in the University of Minnesota’s Analytics for Decision Making specialization. This course will introduce to you the concepts, processes, and applications of predictive modeling, with a focus on linear regression and time series forecasting models and their practical use in Microsoft Excel.
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Create a Simple Project Timeline in Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will create a free account on Microsoft 365, get access to Microsoft Excel, define a project, understand what elements need to be identified and documented before creating a project timeline, and also understand the importance of a project time. Your new skills will help you track your project timeline both for personal and professional purposes.
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Data calculations in Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will create a free account on Microsoft 365, will get access to Microsoft Excel, you will create a table with data that you will later be able to manipulate to calculate sums, average amounts, percentages, and also calculate with certain criteria. Your new skills will help you efficiently manipulate data and operate with formulas that can help make more efficient management decisions in the future.
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