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Excel For Data Analysis & Reporting
Building efficient worksheets to drive better data insights.
Level of course:
Intermediate
Delivery:
In-Person Learning
Duration:
/ 2 days
Upcoming Course Schedule:
2-3 Jan 2025
28-29 April 2025
30-31 July 2025
8-9 Oct 2025
Course Overview
Boost your productivity: Learn efficient data management techniques and collaboration features to work smarter, not harder.
Do you spend hours manually entering data because your not familiar with Excel and struggle with clunky spreadsheets because they feel disconnected? Does analysing and reporting on information leave you feeling frustrated and inefficient?
Excel is a powerful Data Analysis and Reporting tool. You could use Excel to gain new insights into the information and data that you work with in your job. The proper use of Excel features can greatly enhance the design of your report and help you to analyze your organization’s data more effectively.
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Topics
Here's what you get to
learn in this course
Topic 1
Quick Analysis tool allows you to quickly create graphs, sparklines, PivotTables, PivotCharts, and statistical functions by just clicking on a button. Conditional formatting allows you to apply a format to a cell or a range of cells based on certain criteria such as highlight duplicate records, highest values and lowest values. A Sparkline is a tiny chart in a worksheet cell that allows you to quickly visualize the overall trend of a set of values or to indicate maximum and minimum values.
- Use Quick Analysis tool to convert selected data range quickly into a chart or table.
- Use Data Bar to spot larger and smaller numbers quickly.
- Use Color scales to show data distribution and variation, such as investment returns overtime.
- Use icons to present data in three to five categories that are distinguished by a threshold value
- Use Sparklines to show the trend of data
Topic 2
Conditional logical functions allow you to sum, average and count cells that meet multiple criteria. Database functions work with an Excel database to sum, average and count based on a given set of conditions. VLOOKUP function lookup a value in a table by matching on the first column and retrieve the data (result values) in any column to the right. INDEX, MATCH and XLOOKUP functions lookup a value in a table by matching value in any column and retrieve the data from any column in the table.
- Insert automatic subtotals for related data
- Use Custom List in AutoFill
- Sort data by multiple levels
- Sort data based on custom list
- Use Search box criteria to filter data list
- Use Advanced Filter to filter data list
- Use Advanced Filter to copy records to another worksheet
- Use Advanced Filter to copy only selected columns to another worksheet
- Use absolute references and relative references
- Use defined names to create meaningful formulas
- Use Logical functions: IF, AND, OR and IFS
- Use Statistical functions: COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS, SUMIFS, MAXIFS and MINIFS
- Use Database functions: DSUM, DCOUNT, DCOUNTA, DMIN, DMAX and DAVERAGE
- Use Lookup functions: VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH
Topic 3
Flash Fill is a time-saving feature which fills in data automatically when a pattern is provided. You can use it to extract data, insert data, format text and concatenate text. Power Query is a user-friendly business intelligence tool that that simplifies the process of importing data from different source files and sorting them into an Excel sheet in the most convenient and usable format.
- Use Flash Fill to split text, change text cases, combine text, format numbers and dates
- Use TEXT, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, FIND function to format and split data
- Use Text To Columns Wizard to split text string and format dates
- Use CONCAT, TEXTJOIN function to combine data
- Load Table Data into Power Query Editor
- Use Power Query Editor to Change Data Types
- Combine Multiple Files from a Folder using Power Query
- Use Power Query Editor to merge and split columns
Topic 1
Excel table enables you to manage and analyze a group of related data easier. You can create calculated columns, add slicer to Excel table and create relationships between two tables.
- Format Data as Excel Table
- Remove duplicated records from table
- Create calculated columns in Excel table
- Create new Conditional Formatting Rules
- Sort data by Icon Sets
- Filter data to show the highest or lowest data
- Filter Excel table records using Slicers
- Create Chart from Excel Table
Topic 2
PivotTable is one of the most powerful and widely used features of Microsoft Excel. It allows you to summarize, analyze and visualize data in various ways that can provide deep insights. PivotChart is a visual representation of PivotTable that helps to summarize, visualize, and analyze the data in a structured and organized format. It is a wonderful way to visualize data in an effective and efficient manner.
- Create PivotTable and PivotChart from Excel table
- Use different PivotTable Report Layout
- Hide and show Subtotals and Grand Totals
- Create Report Filter Pages from Report Filter
- Using Column Labels and Row Labels filters
- Summarize values using Statistical functions
- Calculate Percent of Totals
- Calculate Running Totals
- Group dates and numbers
- Customize PivotChart using the new Chart Tools
- Add Slicer and Timeline to PivotChart
- Connect multiple PivotTables to Slicer and Timeline
Instructor
Know your course instructor
Valene Ang
A Certified Microsoft Training Specialist who has more than 19 years of training experience and working with companies to improve their data processes. She has trained different levels of management from small-medium size organisations, government offices and multinational companies such as Rio Tinto, SingTel, Canon Singapore, HP Singapore, CPF Board, Changi Airport Group, DHL, Barclays Capital, Far East Organizations, and many more.
Download BrochureFundings & Subsidy
* Participant need to meet the attendance and assessment requirements to be eligible for the funding.
For Singapore Citizens & PR (below 40yrs old) |
For Singapore Citizens (40yrs old and above) |
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Course Fees | 1100 | 1100 |
Funding Support | 550 | 770 |
Total Fee payable | 550 | 330 |
Assessments
As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course.
Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the assessment to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Impress Training along with a WSQ Statement of Attainment.
SkillsFuture Credit
Eligible Singapore Citizens may use their SkillsFuture Credit balance to offset respective course fees. This is only applicable to Self-sponsored Individuals.
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