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Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

Who is this course for?

Introductory level - no prior knowledge needed

What will I learn?

After studying this course, you should be able to:
- explore the functionalities of Excel that are used for problem solving in a business context
- demonstrate the numeracy skills required for gathering and organising data for decision making related to a specific problem
- use graphical techniques (histograms and scatter diagrams) to provide a visual summary of available data
- recognise data presentation and communication techniques used in a range of traditional and electronic media
- describe the relationship between two variables (independent and dependent variables).

Skills tags:

  • data
  • data analysis
  • excel
  • spreadsheet
  • visualisations
  • graphs