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Excel Visualisation

Data Cleansing and Visualizing with Excel

This practical course is designed for professionals, analysts, and Excel users who want to enhance their data cleaning and visualization skills using MS Excel enabling more accurate analysis and informed decision-making.

In this one-day session, you will learn essential data cleansing techniques in MS Excel, including removing duplicates, handling missing values, and standardizing formats.

You'll explore advanced functions like TRIM, CLEAN, and Power Query for efficient data transformation. Additionally, you'll master data visualization by creating dynamic charts, pivot tables, and interactive dashboards to present insights effectively.

Through hands-on exercises, you'll gain practical experience in cleaning and visualizing real-world datasets for better decision-making.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will have an understanding of the following topic areas:

Basic Data Cleansing

Removing duplicates

Find & Replace

Filling in missing values

UPPER, LOWER, PROPER

Date and number formatting

Data Validation

Advanced Data Cleansing Techniques

TRIM, CLEAN

LEFT, RIGHT, MID, SUBSTITUTE

IFERROR & ISERROR

Text to Columns, Flash Fill

CONCATENATE / TEXTJOIN

Power Query for data transformation

Data Visualization

Conditional formatting

Types of charts and when to use them

Creating Interactive Dashboards

Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts

Slicers and Timelines

Creating a mini-dashboard

 

Introduction to Power BI

Power BI Interface & Data Import

Creating Basic Visualizations

Publishing & Sharing Reports

 

Is it for me?

If you wish to develop your skills in cleaning, organizing, and visualizing information efficiently, then this course is for you. If you frequently deal with messy data or need to present insights visually, then yes—this course is perfect for you!

Those wishing to progress to learn the more about Power BI should look at Mastering Data Insights: A One-Day Power BI Beginner Bootcamp training course.

Available for in-house delivery

We can deliver this (and all our) course(s) exclusively for your organisation either in-person at your premises, at a venue of your choice or virtually. In-house training offers a cost-effective and flexible way to upskill your team with content tailored to your organisation’s specific goals and challenges.

Whether you're looking to develop a single team or roll out training organisation-wide we’ll work with you to ensure the programme/course(s) deliver maximum impact.

Interested? Contact us today to discuss in-house options.

  • Louise
    Louise

    Louise is an IT professional with over 22 years' experience in IT and telecommunications. During her career she has worked in IT consultancy, project management and as an in-house trainer.

    Louise is an Associate with AKU Training and provides specialist IT training in Belfast including MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS Project and marketing through Twitter and LinkedIn training.

    Louise also runs her own IT consultancy in Belfast through which she operates as an IT consultant, mentor and IT trainer. She is an Accredited Microsoft Master Instructor and an accredited ECDL and Advanced ECDL Tester. She has worked as an Associate Lecturer with the Open University and a part-time lecturer with Castlereagh College and EDIFHE.

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Please note that the cancellation policy for our public training courses is as follows:

NON-ACCREDITED TRAINING

More than 3 weeks prior to the course start date - No cancellation fee payable.

Less than 3 weeks prior to the course start date - 100% of total fees payable or free transfer.

ACCREDITED TRAINING

More than 6 weeks prior to the course start date - No cancellation fee payable.

Less than 6 weeks prior to the course start date - 100% of total fees payable or free transfer.

Substitute delegates will be accepted at any time at no cost.

Full joining instructions for the course will be emailed to you at least five working days prior to the course. In the meantime, if you have any queries please contact a member of our team on 028 9016 0587 or via email kate@aku.training.

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