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Overview
Course Methodology
Live online course where participants will be able to interact with instructor (video and audio), view slides, collaborate with others, comment on discussions, complete assessments, activities and case studies.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Boost Excel Business Intelligence (BI) expertise in data slicing and dicing, data massaging, and data aggregation and modeling
- Perform data normalization, consolidation, report writing, analysis and reconciliation
- Develop dynamic BI models, scorecards and flash management reports
Target Audience
Business professionals, business analysts, data analysts, research analysts, finance professionals, marketing and sales professionals, HR professionals, IT professionals, administrative staff, supervisors, general business professionals and staff from any function who need to learn and apply state-of-the-art data analysis techniques to their daily business reporting and decision making.
Target Competencies
- Massaging and normalizing data
- Reporting, analysis and reconciliation
- Modeling and 'what-if' scenarios
- Data integration
Note
This is a hands-on training course using laptops. Participants are required to use their own laptops equipped with Excel 2016 or higher for the duration of the training.Course Outline
- Data analysis tools and techniques
- Advanced data validation using lists, dates and custom validation
- The incredible table-tools technique
- Cell management tools: left, right, mid, concatenate, value
- Naming, editing, and managing cells and ranges
- Subtotal, sumif, sumifs, sumproduct, count, countif, countifs
- Looking-up data, texts, and values using vlookup
- Slicing dates into day names, weeks, week numbers, month names, years and quarters
- Text-to-columns and dynamic trimming using trim and len
- Managing texts and numbers using replace, find, and substitute
- Text change functions
- Mastering data reporting: the 20 must learn pivot-tables tools
- Creating pivot tables
- Number formatting techniques
- Designing report layout
- Sorting in ascending, descending and more sort options
- Filtering labels and values
- Expanding and collapsing reports
- Drill down option
- Summarize values by sum, average, minimum, maximum, count
- Show values as % of total and % of
- Pivot table options
- Inserting formulas
- Date analysis
- Copying pivot tables
- Creating pivot charts
- Dynamic chart labeling
- Mastering the slicer
- Showing report filter pages
- Linking pivot tables and pivot graphs with PowerPoint
- Conditional formatting with pivot tables
- Designing reports using the Getpivotdata
- Data modeling
- Spinner
- Check box data modeling with if function
- Option button data modeling with if function
- List box data modeling with choose function
- Scenario manager
- Data integration and connections
- Integrating data from Text file
- Integrating data from Excel file
- Integrating data from Web
Schedule & Fees
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