Beginning your data analysis journey with Excel

This learning track is for professionals who work with data and want to develop practical data analysis skills they can apply to their daily work.

Using Microsoft Excel 365, participants will learn the principles of descriptive statistics and exploratory analysis using practical scenarios covering the full data analysis workflow : from receiving raw data to generating insights and building simple predictive models. Rather than focusing on theory, the course emphasizes how to apply techniques directly to business problems.

By the end of the courses, participants will be able to:

• Ingest, clean and explore data to uncover trends
• Build visualisations that clearly communicate insights
• Apply modelling techniques to support forecasting and decision-making

Pre-requisites : Intermediate knowledge of excel

• Inspect datasets to understand distributions, variability, and data quality
• Select appropriate visualisation techniques to examine data and detect patterns
• Analyse relationships between variables using descriptive and graphical methods
• Develop and evaluate predictive models for both numerical (continuous) and binary variables to support decision‑making