Essentials of Analytics in Excel - DAV-X800
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Course Description
Learn How to Analyze Data and Real Case Problems Using the Powerful Tool of Excel
This course will illustrate data analytics with Excel using fundamental statistical concepts (i.e., descriptive statistics, statistical inference, and regression analysis). In so doing, it offers students a jumping-off point into the world of visualizations and data-driven decision-making from a one-stop-shop software solution. Participants will become adept at tools such as Pivot Tables, the Data Analysis Toolpak, the VLOOKUP, and other formulas which are relevant and applicable to today's vast enterprises and business endeavors.
Learner Outcomes
Participants in our Essentials of Analytics in Excel course can expect the following outcomes:
- Navigate Excel's functions and formulas most often used in data/business analytics
- Create tables and charts on the fly/ad hoc
- Formulate and test hypotheses about a population mean and/or a population proportion
- Identify linear relationships in data and produce regression models
Course Details
Number of Units: 2.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours
Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for working professionals who have completed at a minimum a bachelor's degree or are currently enrolled in a degree program, including financial/data and/or business analysts, accountants, client relationship managers, and account managers from a wide variety of industries. Anyone interested in data analytics is also welcome.
Course Materials:
- Required Text, Essentials of Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel, 8th edition by David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney, Thomas Williams, Jeffrey Camm and James Cochran available at Amazon.com or your local bookstore
- Optional, Recommended Text, Excel Statistics: A Quick Guide, 3rd edition by Neil Salkind available at Amazon.com or your local bookstore
Required Applications:
- Microsoft Excel (for analysis)
Prerequisites
This is the first of four courses in the Data Analytics and Visualization Certificate. Courses must be taken in order.
A Bachelor's degree or currently in a bachelor's program, with a basic mathematics background preferred, with at least one course, preferably, in basic statistics taken at the college level.
Applies Towards the Following Certificate(s), Professional Programs and Series
- Data Analytics and Visualization Certificate : Required Courses - Start with DAV-X800 and continue in order
Online Fixed-Datecourses offer a convenient, yet rigorous style of learning that allows you to structure your education to suit your schedule while keeping you on pace toward achieving your educational goals. Online courses have fixed start and finish dates similar to classroom courses, but as an online student, you will have access to your classroom at any time and can view your assignments, syllabus and course resources from any computer with Internet capability.